From the Book - First US edition
The crisis of democracy / Kofi Annan
Enthusiasm and mistrust : the paradox of democracy
Crisis of legitimacy : support is crumbling
Crisis of efficiency : declining vigour
It's the fault of politicians : the diagnosis
It's the fault of democracy : the diagnosis of the technocracy
It's the fault of representative democracy : the diagnosis of direct democracy /
It's the fault of electoral-representative democracy : a new diagnosis
A democratic procedure : drawing lots (antiquity and renaissance)
An aristocratic procedure : elections (eighteenth century)
The democratisation of elections : a bogus process (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
The revival of sortition : deliberative democracy (late twentieth century)
Democratic innovation in practice : an international quest (2004/2013)
Democratic innovation in the future : allotted assemblies
Blueprint for a democracy based on sortition
Timely appeal for a bi-representative system.
