熟議と抽選の関係を再考する

抄録

This paper revisits the relationship between deliberative democracy and selection by lottery, or sortition. Research on deliberative democracy shows that lotteries have been viewed as an essential procedure for mini-publics. More recently, however, some views have emerged that consider deliberation and lottery separately, especially in the context of sortition legislatures. From a deliberative democratic perspective, this paper argues that mini-publics are not sites of deliberation only by sortition and that, in light of recent deliberative system approaches, deliberation is not necessarily essential, especially in mini-publics or lottery-based legislatures related to decision making. Finally, this paper states that there are, therefore, cases where “deliberation within” alone is not a problem even from the deliberative democratic perspective. It also points out that the interest in “deliberation within” without mutual communication may bring us closer to an individualistic concept of democracy and the expected problems associated with it.