Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?
Brett Hennig: Co kdybychom nahradili politiky náhodně vybranými lidmi.
Brett Hennig co-founded and directs the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government. Full bio
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one of the big questions,
who perhaps live in a city
která žije ve městě,
the rules that govern us?
an important question.
it's even more important than ever
závažnější než kdy jindy,
climate change, the refugee crisis,
změny klimatu, uprchlickou krizi.
themselves this question
in organized societies.
organizovaných společenství.
benevolentní správce,
for the greater good of everyone.
pro dobro celku.
they could be those guardians,
že dokážou být těmito poručníky,
they tended to lose their heads.
přicházeli často o hlavy.
jste dlouho prožívali jeden
his answer of how to live together.
řešení, jak společně žít.
kruté a nehumánní.
a different kind of answer,
into hibernation for 2,000 years,
za posledních 2 000 let zapomnělo,
at the modern history of democracy,
současné demokracie,
to put the last 200 years.
the number of democracies.
že 20. století je
of democracy's triumph,
the end of history,
konce historie,
has been answered,
byla zodpovězena a
liberální demokracie.
living in a democracy is a good thing?
v demokracii je dobré?
keep your hands down.
nechte ruce dole.
who didn't raise their hands,
kteří nezvedli své ruce.
are functioning well?
fungují dobře?
in the audience somewhere.
v publiku najde jeden politik.
demokracie koncem historie,
is the end of history,
or contradiction here.
is about the ideal of democracy,
are very appealing.
velmi atraktivní.
our politicians aren't trusted,
politikům se nevěří
významnými osobními zájmy.
by powerful vested interests.
jak tento paradox vyřešit.
to resolve this paradox.
it doesn't work.
protože nefunguje.
who will ignore democratic norms,
ignorovat demokratické normy,
is to fix this broken system,
opravit tento rozbitý systém
in our parliaments
v naších parlamentech,
evidence-based laws
realitou podložené zákony
"Why wouldn't this work?"
to nemohlo fungovat?“
afterwards about it.
podiskutovat.
and put them in parliament.
a ty dáme do parlamentu
for a few more minutes, shall we?
co vy na to?
and you and you and you down there
for the next couple of years.
to make sure that it matched
aby to odpovídalo
profile of the country
profilu země,
sample of people.
vzorek lidí.
some would be old,
ordinary people like you and me.
běžní lidé jako vy a já.
how we would all think,
jak bychom všichni přemýšleli,
the moral crux of political decisions.
morální báze politických rozhodnutí.
someone of your gender,
and someone with your background
would build on the wisdom of crowds.
z principu moudrosti davu.
than the sum of their parts.
než suma jednotlivých částí.
ale jimž se nebude zobat z ruky.
that diversity can trump ability
škála problémů společnosti,
of societal questions and problems.
silnější než schopnosti.
by public opinion poll.
would move beyond public opinion
budou za rámcem veřejného mínění
one major side effect:
nezamýšlený důsledek:
truly representative of society,
reprezentovat společnost,
pretty sad to see that.
of how democracy was done
k praktikování demokracie
is called a kleroteria.
se nazývá kleroterion.
random-selection device.
k náhodnému výběru.
randomly selected citizens
of their political posts.
were aristocratic devices.
were a thing to be avoided.
je lépe se vyhnout.
the ancient use of random selection
než starověká aplikace
je jeho dnešní obrození.
of random selection in politics
náhodného výběru
abychom o všech hovořili.
too many examples to talk about.
that it's going to be difficult
že to bude těžké
with randomly selected people."
náhodně vybranými lidmi.“
separate his recycling."
but overwhelming and compelling evidence
ale jistě drtivý a přesvědčivý důkaz
they act responsibly.
tak konají zodpovědně.
Would this be perfect?
will continue to exist.
to me at least, is obviously yes.
jistěže ano.
to our original question:
náhodný výběr.
things that we can do,
happening right now.
můžeme dělat pokusy.
and workplaces and other institutions,
firmách a dalších institucích,
is doing in Bolivia.
v Bolívii.
and citizens' assemblies,
a občanská shromáždění,
is doing in Australia,
australská newDemocracy Foundation,
is doing in the US
is doing right now.
demanding change,
které chce změnu,
is doing in the UK.
ve Velké Británii.
a second chamber in our parliament,
druhá komora našeho parlamentu
for a citizens' senate in France
right here in Hungary.
v Maďarsku.
right into the heart of government.
do srdce vlády.
in the current system,
nynějšího systému,
elections with sortition.
a nahradit volby losováním.
systems have been created,
systémy tvořeny
torn down and replaced
(Hungarian) Thank you.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Brett Hennig - Author, activistBrett Hennig co-founded and directs the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government.
Why you should listen
Before co-founding the Sortition Foundation, Brett Hennig wore a variety of hats: as a taxi driver, a software engineer, a social justice activist, a mathematics tutor and the primary carer of four boys. He finished his PhD in astrophysics just before his first son arrived.
After spending several disheartening years in civil society organizations and politics, Hennig became inspired by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's trilogy on political philosophy and began investigating and researching network forms of democracy. The resulting book, The End of Politicians: Time for a Real Democracy, has been called "a book for visionaries" by New Internationalist contributing editor James Kelsey Fry and described as "a powerful critique and provocative alternative" by Professor Erik Olin Wright of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hennig has given many talks promoting sortition and has contributed a chapter, "Who needs elections? Accountability, Equality, and Legitimacy under Sortition," to the forthcoming book Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (Verso, 2019).
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