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Stories about Iceland crowdsourcing it's legislation keep arising, but I have yet to see any authors talk about Iceland's incredibly small population of 300,000
by evanlivingston 14y ago
Stories about Iceland crowdsourcing it's legislation keep arising, but I have yet to see any authors talk about Iceland's incredibly small population of 300,000.
- csmatt 14y agoJust as startups have a natural advantage to make big change due to the agility of a small group, big change will most likely come from countries with smaller populations.
- daniel-cussen 14y agoLike Dubai, Ghana, Singapore, Ireland, Chile, and Finland.
- daniel-cussen 14y agoLike Ghana, Costa Rica, Singapore, Dubai, Ireland, Chile, and Finland.
- cpeterso 14y agoThe article says the "crowdsourced" constitution was written by 25 delegates. Legislation written Wikipedia-style would be an interesting, if scary, proposition.
- morsch 14y agoYou make it sound as if that trivializes the process. But I agree that there's something to be written there. It sometimes seems to me that democratic processes around the world struggle (or fail) to scale to the number of people represented. Maybe 300k is just a good size for many of the decisions made by a legislature. On an unrelated note, Athens during the golden age hat around 300k inhabitants. Of course, nearly half of them were slaves, and less than 10% of them got to vote.
- saraid216 14y agoIt'd be worth rating the democratic quality of various cities and comparing their populations. The US has good number of cities that fall on both sides of that line. The results would be muddied by county/state/federal influence, obviously, but it'd be able to be suggestive.