As a solution he advocates a deliberative democracy based on sortition. The use of random selection to form a representative deliberative body is known as sortition. This is why sortition was not used to select military commanders (strategos) in ancient Athens. The Doge of Venice was determined through a complex process of nomination, voting and sortition. Mark Hastings was appointed Mayor of Tipperary Hill by means of sortition. Sortition may be less corruptible than voting. Sometimes called "democracy without elections", sortition chooses decision makers via a random process. Today, therefore, even juries in most jurisdictions are not ultimately chosen through pure sortition. Under a system of pure, universal sortition the individuals are not chosen for their enthusiasm. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes. Representatives appointed by sortition do not owe anything to anyone for their position. The membership of a citizens' assembly is randomly selected, as in other forms of sortition. He won the sortition to govern Achaea for 133/134. This "diversity trumps ability theorem" is essential to why sortition is a viable democratic option. For the term 20/21 the sortition selected him to be proconsul of Asia.