Research Representative Concept Questions Of Sortition Democracy

In recent years,there has been a trend in the study of sortition and democracy in political science.Many articles criticize representative democracy,and discuss the concept and theory of "lottery/ sortition".They proposed to replace the election with sortition,generate representatives or officials by a randomly selected manner.It is refreshing but also confusing.First,by combing its history basis:the ancient Greek city-state politics,as well as the political connotation of ancient and modern’s difference,will find the historical condition of "lottery /sortition" is very obvious.Its role poses many challenges in the present.Second,sortition democracy criticize representative democracy by practical problems and new definition.Many political thinkers have carried out in-depth speculation about representative.Rethink the notion of representation would better understand the merits and demerits of sortition democracy and representative democracy.This article contrasts ancient and modern,analyzes the differences between sortition democracy and other democratic theories about representative,in order to further focus on the theory and practice of "sortition democracy’s representative".Then explore the feasibility and challenges of sortition democracy in the contemporary.