The Tools for Participation through Sortition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2025
Necessary tools for the success of the new participatory framework for democratic global governance will be expertise, rules and rule enforcement, and interaction among the new circles of participation across and up and down the different levels of governance. We must be able to discern when expert advice is needed and when to heed it to produce better results. We must also be able to tell what is expert advice and what is not. In the process of democratic decision-making in the new network of democratic global governance, there must be a balance between the combination of right representation and collective wisdom on the one hand and technical and other forms of expertise on the other; for such a balance will produce the best results. What is more, just as we need a different kind of democracy, so too do we need a different kind of rules. A reorienting of global rules away from the limitations of the Westphalian system and in a planetary direction is required for the new network of democratic global governance. There must also be continuous interaction among all the participating parts and all the different levels of the new framework of democratic global governance.
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