demarchy

English

Etymology

From demo- +‎ -archy.

Noun

demarchy (countable and uncountable, plural demarchies)

  1. Government by decision-makers who have been randomly selected by sortition (lot) from a pool of eligible citizens.
    • 1993, W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, Towards a New Socialism‎[1], pages 163-164, 168:
      In his recent book Is Democracy Possible? (1985) John Burnheim advocates a system that he calls ‘demarchy’, with striking resemblances to classical democracy. […] This is more significant for demarchies administering manufacturing processes, but would affect them all to some extent.
    • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎[2]:
      Coined by Australian philosopher John Burnheim, a demarchy, or lottocracy, is a form of government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision makers who have been selected from a pool of eligible citizens. Demarchies have been portrayed extensively in scifi, including Alastair Reynolds’s Revelation Space series of novels (where it’s used to flatten hierarchies), […]

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