After a long hiatus, we are back! This time Victor talks with Alex Guerrero about his recent book, Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections. According to Guerrero, elections systematically reward ambition, status-seeking, and elite competition rather than good democratic judgment. This, he argues justifies replacing electoral legislatures with randomly selected single-issue legislative lotteries, or SILLs.
We discuss the project’s main influences, the core case for replacing elections in this way, and some of the main objections against the idea. If you are inspired by the idea of lottocracy or just want to learn more, please visit lottocracy.org
Alex Guerrero is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.