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Democracy In Crisis - How A Shift In Approach To Governing Can Find The Solutions We Need with Jeff Miller

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Athens, Democracy and Crisis

Athens did not use elections very much in the classical period. So how do they decide on their public officials? Cause there are public officials in athens. The fancy name for it is sortitian, but we would just call it a lottery. And so every year they'd select, more or less at random, ten citizens,. They put em together on a board and they say, ok, guys are in charge of this, righte. It's kind of like us opening a phone book up.

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