The Influence that Institutional Design and Role Framing exert on the Political Attitudes that Citizens Exhibit in Lottocratic Systems

This study examines the manner in which the political attitudes of citizens differ when they evaluate political issues as ordinary citizens compared to when they evaluate them from the perspective of randomly selected legislators under lottery-based democratic institutions. It focuses on the effects that institutional design, which includes full lottery and mixed lottery-electoral systems, and role framing, which distinguishes between the citizen and legislator perspectives, have on policy preferences, ideological positions, and evaluations of political representation. Drawing on the critiques of lottocracy that were provided by Lafont and Urbinati in 2024, this study examines how policy preferences change between ordinary citizens and citizen representatives.