Abstract

I review Alex Guerrero's Lottocracy: Democracy with Elections focusing on its central argument: elections can no longer achieve the things we want from political institutions while lottocracy can. I argue Guerrero book is extremely impressive in its detail and ingenuity in thinking through lottocratic institutions, but is less conclusive in showing that elections are the ultimate culprit of the problems he identifies, which weakens his case that only lottocracy can solve the problems plaguing electoral democracies. Regardless, the book is essential reading for future democratic theory.