Jury
Democracy
The Opposite of Mob Rule
By
Dan Sullivan
Jury Democracy: The Opposite of
Mob Rule
Jury democracy can solve problems
that plague majority-rule systems
Sunday, June 28, 2
PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific, 7 PM Greenwich
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Sortition (selecting public officials by lottery) gives us
true democracy (government by the people), but fails to give us
any aristocracy (government by the best). Majority rule often fails to
give us leaders who are either representative or the most competent.
Dan Sullivan is the director of Saving Communities and president of the Council of Georgist Organizations. Since 1978, he has led successful campaigns that resulted in several shifts to land value tax in Pittsburgh and in other Pennsylvania cities. He has been called to testify on tax economics by state legislative committees, Congressional sub-committees, and economic reform organizations in multiple countries, and his work has been featured in many publications, from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press to Fortune Magazine.
Videos: Pittsburgh's 1990 Tax Swap [56:31]; The Politics of Reason [1:06:14]