Demarchy

(noun)

Demarchy (or lottocracy) is a form of government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision makers who have been selected by sortition (lot) from a broadly inclusive pool of eligible citizens.

Related Terms

Examples of Demarchy in the following topics:

  • Participatory Democracy

    • Political variants of participatory democracy include consensus democracy, deliberative democracy, demarchy, and grassroots democracy.
    • Demarchy is a hypothetical system where government is heavily decentralized into smaller independent groups and where randomly selected decision makers have been chosen to govern, and each group is responsible for one or several functions in society.