https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-Justice https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-Justice 2012-06-27T07:59:08Z text/html en Valur Ingimundarson Politics justice crisis Iceland <p>The Icelandic crisis was far more than a typical banking crisis. Historian Ingimundarson sees it also as a transitional justice case with features of truth-telling and demands for government accountability, leading to the indictment of the former Prime Minister for crimes associated with the global financial crisis.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Could-Random-Selection-and https://booksandideas.net/Could-Random-Selection-and 2012-06-06T06:59:27Z text/html en Yves Sintomer Politics Carousel democracy deliberation Institut français Iceland <p>The practice of using representative samples in decision making in contemporary political regimes creates an opening for re-establishing sortition (making decisions or filling offices by drawing lots). The diversity that sortition adds to political procedures helps reinforce democratic legitimacy. In Yves Sintomer's view, we could even introduce sortition into elections.</p>