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ABSTRACT
As global issues grow more complex, electoral democracies become more and more ineffective as mechanisms for decision-making and representation. There are alternative democratic processes that can be used without the use of elections, and there have been several notable successes in the use of random selection in politics. In this article I discuss a model of deliberative democracy – demarchy – and how it can be used to improve public deliberation, representation and legitimacy in decision-making.
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1. Independents and non-partisan politicians can also be careerists. However, political parties provide clearer opportunities for career advancement and progression in electoral democracies than for single individuals without these institutions.
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Luke Zaphir
Luke Zaphir completed his PhD in philosophy in 2017 and is currently working on the Critical Thinking Project at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has been a philosophy and humanities secondary school teacher since 2014. He has research interests in contemporary democratic theory and citizenship education.