Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections [Book Review]

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2026)
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Many scholars working on democracy today draw our attention only to its upsides or its downsides—the dream or the nightmare. But Alexander Guerrero’s Lottocracy: Democracy without Elections is an admirable exception. While he recognizes that the positive and negative potentials of democracy…

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