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Sortition

A method of polling random officials by lottery in order to sample overall opinions

The ancient Greeks would count our modern democratic systems as oligarchies, an olagarchy is

A society ruled by a small group of powerful elites. An oligarch might be elected by the people but serve in a system where they don't rule have power

The us can be seen as undemocratic bc...?

Citizens in democracies spend up to 1/5 of their lives governs by a party or candidate that they didn't vote for The vast majority of people are systematically excluded from public decision making

What is a huge similarity between ancient and modern political thinking?

Core values- freedom and equality

We're elections in ancient Greece considered democratic or oligarchic?

Oligarchic, they favored the rich citizens

What are modern oligarchs known as

Plutocrats or fat cats

Why is Ancient Greek society not the perfect model?

Practiced slavery and only some members of society had the rights of citizens

Anarchy

State of disorder due to absence of authority

Ostracism

Temporarily vanishing people by popular vote