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I always thought that a direct democracy where you can by default delegate your vote to one of the elected politicians, but you override whenever you want, woul
by slazaro 11y ago
I always thought that a direct democracy where you can by default delegate your vote to one of the elected politicians, but you override whenever you want, would be the best of both worlds (representative democracy and direct democracy). That wouldn't necessarily work on this kind of votes (names for stuff), but I think it would work well on the regular issues that politicians make decisions about.
- faitswulff 11y agoGoogle has been testing just such a form of governing: http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&co...
- SpeakMouthWords 11y agoI went to the Pirate Party conference in the UK a few years ago. This method of decision making was proposed, but issue that was recognised was that of absenteeism. What happens when Alice gives her vote to Bob, but then gets disillusioned with the entire system and disengages without de-registering her delegation. Any liquid democracy system needs a strong way of differentiating between genuine delegation and disinterest, in order to stop legacy power accruals.
- AlgorithmicTime 11y agoCouldn't the delegation have a time-out, such that Alice must renew her commitment to delegate her vote to Bob every 6 months or whatever we decide the optimal period is?