词汇 | sortition |
释义 | sortition noun[ U ] politics specializeduk /sɔːˈtɪʃ.ən/ us /sɔːrˈtɪʃ.ən/ the practice of selecting officials where everybody has an equal chance of being selected: The most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration was organized on the basis of sortition. My preferred solution is to stop electing senators, and instead appoint them using sortition. Officers were elected by sortition, a kind of lottery whereby the offices were divided among the qualified. Appointing committee members by sortition would be more representative. The new system for choosing town leaders was based on a lottery system, also known as sortition. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence crapshoot even money fluke fluky long shot luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom randomly randomness serendipitous serendipitously stumble into something You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Elections |
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