noun
- the practice of selecting people for positions or duties by drawing lots or random selection
Usage: formal; political science
Examples
- Ancient Athens used sortition to choose citizens for jury duty.
- The committee proposed sortition as an alternative to traditional elections.
- Sortition ensures that all eligible citizens have an equal chance of being selected.
- Some political theorists argue that sortition could reduce corruption in government.
- The council members were chosen by sortition rather than popular vote.
- Sortition was commonly used in medieval Italian city-states to select officials.