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What form of government would be less sensitive to lobbying by commercial special interests?

• Zigurd 12y ago
  Demarchy, with short terms of office.
  • nitrogen 12y ago
    Wouldn't the offices of the demarchy accrete long-held staff positions and/or outside consultants to compensate for the office holders' inexperience? And wouldn't those staff members and consultants be vulnerable to lobbying? Even if we went straight to direct democracy (which I like in theory, as well as I like the idea of demarchy), the special interest with the biggest advertising budget would win. I wonder, could an elected technocracy (by which I mean different governments and representatives for different spheres of influence) solve this by limiting both the tyranny of the masses and the influence of any one corrupt official? Or would whatever process controls the final budget still have enough power to corrupt the system?
• baddox 12y ago
  The hypothetical futarchy is designed to improve this issue. http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
• seanflyon 12y ago
  Any government in which it is more difficult to pass laws benefiting special interests.