Keep this chapter! For people not already persuaded by sortition, they will be comparing sortition interventions to what they have previously been advocating for, which includes such things as publicly funded elections, proportional representation, and alternative voting methods. This chapter logically follows the preceeding one and explaining why the status quo is insufficient.
+1 keep it. It’s short and gives concrete useful information about the improvements of sortition. I do not remember chapters 4 and 5 well enough to recall this has already been said. It also talks about the limits of stratification which I think any critical reader will be interested in.
i don't know what guiding principle should be used for what to include. i personally had already learned a fair amount about sortition from ian troesoyer before reading this blog/book at all. similarly, when i read henry george's progress & poverty, i had already learned a lot about georgism.
however, when i've shared progress & poverty with people, it's become clear that most of them "just wanna know the answer" earlier. i really like your chapters on sortition and the failures of electoral politics. i like the history, too, but seems less central to me. is the book too long? too short? i have no idea. my only personal issues so far have been a skepticism of relying on so many studies, because i have lost trust in academia (especially psychology) so thoroughly. and then a sorta intuition that people want to hear more about multi-body sortition earlier.
i wonder what people's book reading habits are these days. anyway, i'm very excited about sortition and really appreciate all the work you've put into it (and even though i'm skeptical of trusting studies, i respect the effort you've gone through to provide them and sources them)!
Keep this chapter! For people not already persuaded by sortition, they will be comparing sortition interventions to what they have previously been advocating for, which includes such things as publicly funded elections, proportional representation, and alternative voting methods. This chapter logically follows the preceeding one and explaining why the status quo is insufficient.
+1 keep it. It’s short and gives concrete useful information about the improvements of sortition. I do not remember chapters 4 and 5 well enough to recall this has already been said. It also talks about the limits of stratification which I think any critical reader will be interested in.
i don't know what guiding principle should be used for what to include. i personally had already learned a fair amount about sortition from ian troesoyer before reading this blog/book at all. similarly, when i read henry george's progress & poverty, i had already learned a lot about georgism.
however, when i've shared progress & poverty with people, it's become clear that most of them "just wanna know the answer" earlier. i really like your chapters on sortition and the failures of electoral politics. i like the history, too, but seems less central to me. is the book too long? too short? i have no idea. my only personal issues so far have been a skepticism of relying on so many studies, because i have lost trust in academia (especially psychology) so thoroughly. and then a sorta intuition that people want to hear more about multi-body sortition earlier.
i wonder what people's book reading habits are these days. anyway, i'm very excited about sortition and really appreciate all the work you've put into it (and even though i'm skeptical of trusting studies, i respect the effort you've gone through to provide them and sources them)!