The Lottocratic Mentality

Cristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, where she is the director of the Program in Critical Theory and co-director of the research group on Global Capitalism and Law. She has held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain), the University Carlos III in Madrid, and the Universidad Autónoma de México. Cristina is editor-in-chief of the journal Constellations and is the recipient (with Alex Guerrero) of the 2022 Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution.Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University in New York. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, University Center for Human Values (Princeton). She has been a visiting professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy), Bocconi University, SciencesPo, and UNICAMP (Brazil). Nadia co-edited the academic journal Constellations, with Andrew Arato, and is a columnist for RAI television and some Italian newspapers, including Domani and La Repubblica.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Rise of the Lottocratic Mentality1: The Lottery Revival2: Deliberative Democracy's Turn to Lottery-Based Institutions3: The Clash Between Electoral Democracy and Lottocracy: Three Options4: The Targets of Lottocracy RevisitedII. What's Wrong with the Lottocractic Mentality?5: Disempowering The People: The Lottocratic Reinterpretation Of Political Equality6: A Sample Embodying Everyone: A New Populist Conception of Representation7: The Technocratic Conception Of PoliticsIII. Lottery Without the Lottocratic Mentality8: The Democratic Alternative: Institutionalizing Minipublics to Empower the CitizenryConclusionReferencesIndex