Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy
Cristina Lafont — Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy (2019)Cristina Lafont · 2019 · Book · AbstractDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0920 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Legislature by lot · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Lafont argues that lottocratic proposals, like epistocratic and deep-pluralist ones, are 'shortcuts' that would require citizens to defer blindly to decision-makers they cannot control, and would therefore undermine democracy.”
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