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It's important to note that the system I want isn't in the end "direct democracy." I want "distributed democracy." Most citizens will not participate in day-to

It's important to note that the system I want isn't in the end "direct democracy." I want "distributed democracy." Most citizens will not participate in day-to-day votes, because they will have proxied their votes to other party members they trust. This will bear some resemblance to the power structure of modern day political parties, but it will be transparent, accountable, and easy to change. Some people will still be influential and hold big swaths of votes in their district, and then continue to command this power after the election. In some cases, the candidate might have such faith that he/she holds the majority of the proxies in the district, meaning they have broad power to make all decisions.

jaggederest 13y ago
sounds a lot like anarchosyndicalism if you leave out the economic side.
- nakedrobot2 13y ago
  cue a quote from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"....
steveklabnik 13y ago
Congratulations, you're an anarchist! (or at least an autonomist of some sort...) You may really, really enjoy David Graeber's recent book, 'the Democracy Project.'
quadhome 13y ago
This system exists, is open source, is behind the German Pirate Party, and needs your support! http://liquidfeedback.org/ http://liquidfeedback.org/
- toyg 13y ago
  Based on WebMCP, "a web application framework written in Lua and C". Includes RocketWiki, "a small parser written in Haskell which translates a wiki dialect to HTML". They use mercurial for version control. Regardless of your personal coding preferences (my next project might be in golang, tbh), choosing niche technology for what should be a mass open-source effort is not the most promising start. No wonder in Italy they're having trouble implementing it, knowledge must be thin on the ground. A software like this must be built on EASY technology so that every organisation can adapt it to their own local needs for cheap; it has to be the web equivalent of VB6/VBA, something everyone can pick up fast, something widespread like PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/.Net.
nkoren 13y ago
You're talking about "delegative democracy" or "liquid democracy". Here's the software to support that: http://liquidfeedback.org/ http://liquidfeedback.org/ The German Pirate Party already uses this as their decision-making platform. EDIT: Just posted this and discovered that quadhome and I had the exact same idea at the exact same time. :-) Whoops!

jaggederest 13y ago

sounds a lot like anarchosyndicalism if you leave out the economic side.

nakedrobot2 13y ago
cue a quote from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"....

steveklabnik 13y ago

Congratulations, you're an anarchist! (or at least an autonomist of some sort...) You may really, really enjoy David Graeber's recent book, 'the Democracy Project.'

quadhome 13y ago

This system exists, is open source, is behind the German Pirate Party, and needs your support! http://liquidfeedback.org/ http://liquidfeedback.org/

toyg 13y ago
Based on WebMCP, "a web application framework written in Lua and C". Includes RocketWiki, "a small parser written in Haskell which translates a wiki dialect to HTML". They use mercurial for version control. Regardless of your personal coding preferences (my next project might be in golang, tbh), choosing niche technology for what should be a mass open-source effort is not the most promising start. No wonder in Italy they're having trouble implementing it, knowledge must be thin on the ground. A software like this must be built on EASY technology so that every organisation can adapt it to their own local needs for cheap; it has to be the web equivalent of VB6/VBA, something everyone can pick up fast, something widespread like PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/.Net.

nkoren 13y ago

You're talking about "delegative democracy" or "liquid democracy". Here's the software to support that: http://liquidfeedback.org/ http://liquidfeedback.org/ The German Pirate Party already uses this as their decision-making platform. EDIT: Just posted this and discovered that quadhome and I had the exact same idea at the exact same time. :-) Whoops!