Preface to the Special Issue*

• Author: John Gastil,Erik Olin Wright
• Published date: 01 September 2018
• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: 10.1177/0032329218789882
• Subject Matter: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Politics & Society

2018, Vol. 46(3) 299 –301

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Preface to the Special Issue*

John Gastil

Pennsylvania State University

Erik Olin Wright

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Abstract

This special issue explores the theoretical and practical prospects for creating

legislative bodies via sortition. This preface summarizes the purpose of the issue and

each of the articles therein.

Keywords

Athens, bicameralism, democracy, elections, legislatures, political equality

Corresponding Author:

John Gastil, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 232 Sparks

Bldg., University Park, PA 16802, USA.

Email: jgastil@psu.edu

*This special issue of Politics & Society titled “Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative

Governance” features a preface, an introductory anchor essay and postscript, and six articles that

were presented as part of a workshop held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2017,

organized by John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright.

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