Liquid democracy (delegative democracy) might be a potential alternative. It has its problems, but it would at the very least be an interesting experiment. htt

Liquid democracy (delegative democracy) might be a potential alternative. It has its problems, but it would at the very least be an interesting experiment. http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advisory_parliament_integrated_with_the_social_web.pdf http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi... Liquid democracy is a hybrid between direct and representative democracy, that provides better incentives to vote. It was invented by G. Tullock in 1967, and it, and very similar ideas, are also named proxy voting, and delegable- or delegate cascade democracy. Its core idea is delegation. That is, citizens can either vote directly, or voluntarily assign their vote to a proxy that will represent them, similar to how this happens in stockholder voting. Also, as in stockholder voting, people can vote by themselves at all times. The selection of a proxy can either be pictured as temporarily passing on ones voting right, or as automatically copying the proxies vote onto ones own ballot paper. Another important property of TDD, and the one that makes it different, is that delegation is transitive, in the sense that the representative can, in turn, transfer his collected votes on to another proxy (...read the paper for more).