What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Zooming out from the mud huts of indigenous communities in forested hills eastern India, this article compares three different models leadership and democracy: liberal electoral democracy; Marxist-Leninist Maoist democracy sortition — random selection rotating leaders. The significance is introduced into discussions India (showing connections with pra...

BACKGROUND Menopause is one of the most critical periods of woman's life. With reducing of ovarian estrogen; women are more prone to psychological and physical symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of melatonin on the climacteric symptoms. METHODS The present double blind, placebo randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 240 menopausal women (40 - 60 years o...

In this article, I critically assess Hélène Landemore's new model of Open Democracy, asking whether it requires citizens to blindly defer the decisions mini-public. To address question, I, first, discuss three institutional mechanisms in all which can be read grant democratic control. argue that neither capacity authorize selection mechanism (random sortition), nor lottocratic conception politi...

Abstract This paper contributes to growing debates over the decision-making ability of democracy by considering epistemic value deliberative democracy. It focuses on benefits democratic deliberation can derive from its diversity, and extent which these be realised with respect complexities political problems. The first calls attention issue complexity through a critique Hélène Landemore Diversi...

A population of voters must elect representatives among themselves to decide on a sequence possibly unforeseen binary issues. Voters care only about the final decision, not elected representatives. The disutility voter is proportional fraction issues, where his preferences disagree with decision. While an issue-by-issue vote by all would maximize social welfare, we are interested in how well ca...

menopause is one of the most critical periods of woman's life. with reducing of ovarian estrogen; women are more prone to psychological and physical symptoms. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of melatonin on the climacteric symptoms.the present double blind, placebo randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 240 menopausal women (40 - 60 years old) referring to the g...

Democratic institutions awaken and flatter the passion for equality without ever being able to satisfy it entirely.11 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper, 2006), p. 198. Tocqueville To turn from mechanisms concepts social forces play …22 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: Political Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), ...