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Cover -- Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Problems With Electoral Democracy -- 1: How To Evaluate Political Institutions -- 1.1. When We Evaluate Political Institutions, What Are We Evaluating? -- 1.2. Political Functionalism -- 1.3. Political Contextualism And Non-universalism -- 1.4. Other Moral Considerations: Equality, Political Liberty, Rights, Responsiveness -- 1.5. Political Sensibility And Universalism About Necessary Institutional Capacities -- 1.6. The Social Conditions, Apples To Apples 2: Ignorance And The Voter Influence Dilemma -- 2.1. Elections And Voter Ignorance -- 2.2. Elections And Ignorance: The End Of Accountability And The Pervasiveness Of Capture -- 3: Bad Press -- 3.1. The Environment, The Pseudo-environment, And Epistemic Toolkits -- 3.2. Search Function And The Entertainment Filter: What We Seek Out And Why -- 3.3. Availability: The News We Make Is The News We Buy -- 3.4. The Excellent Free Press Problem -- 4: Vicious Partisanship -- 4.1. Elections, Duverger's Law, And Social Identity Theory -- 4.2. Sorting, Saturating, And Polarizing 4.3. Epistemic Viciousness: Distrust, Epistemic Bubbles, And Echo Chambers -- 4.4. Agential Viciousness: Segregation, Vilification, And The Death Of Community -- 4.5. Going Our Separate Ways Or Coming Together -- 5: Short-term Bias -- 6: Unrepresentative Representatives -- 6.1. Unrepresentative Representatives, Agential Trouble -- 6.2. Unrepresentative Representatives, Epistemic Trouble -- 7: Modest Responses And Their Limitations -- 7.1. Citizen Ignorance And The Epistemic Supply And Demand Mismatch -- 7.1.1. Limiting And Selecting -- 7.1.2. General Improvement Of Citizen-based Input 7.1.3. Reducing The Epistemic Burden -- 7.2. Capture And Influence -- 7.2.1. Campaign Finance And Electoral Speech Reform -- 7.2.2. Lobbying And Revolving Door Reform -- 7.2.3. Reducing Background Socioeconomic Inequality -- 7.3. Electoral