Tegen verkiezingen

'Meeslepend boek over het 'democratisch vermoeidheidssyndroom.'

Financieele Dagblad

 

'Van Reybrouck legt de vinger op de eenzijdigheid van onze diplomademocratie. In schitterende zinnen zet hij aan tot denken over de vele experimenten om defaitisme en impasses te doorbreken. Met zijn meeslepende pleidooi voor loting slaagt hij erin de slijtage van de democratie bloot te leggen.' 

NRC Handelsblad

 

'We need to make our democracies more inclusive. This requires bold and innovative reforms to bring in the young, the poor and minorities into the political system. An interesting idea put forward by Mr. Van Reybrouck would be to reintroduce the ancient Greek practice of selecting parliaments by lot instead of election. In other words, parliamentarians would no longer be nominated by political parties, but chosen at random for a limited term, in the way many jury systems work. This would prevent the formation of self-serving and self-perpetuating political classes disconnected from their electorates.'
Kofi Annan

 

'Very persuasive.' 

The Times

 

'An idea whose time has come.'

J.M. Coetzee

 

'This fine iconoclastic work could not be more timely.'

Karen Armstrong