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Check out Demoex, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex, where each bill is voted on by all residents, the party's representat
by meric 12y ago
Check out Demoex, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex, where each bill is voted on by all residents, the party's representatives must vote for the corresponding bill in the same proportion as the votes received for each bill. This is how you can sneak direct democracy into a representative democracy through the front door.
- sergiosgc 12y agoPurely direct democracy does not work. Representative democracy is needed because you can't possibly design a system where everyone has to be bothered to assess every new law proposal. Most of the bills are about subjects people know nothing about. It takes time to research the subject, gather expert opinion and then emit a well grounded vote. That's why you need to assign a group of people full-time to the task of assessing new bills, aka representative democracy. In direct democracy, you either have populist votes or non-participation. It is inescapable. The fact that the current system is broken is no excuse to move to one that is flawed from the start. We now have the technological means for an evolution of representative democracy: Liquid Democracy, or delegative democracy. It's representative democracy with "continuous elections". It might work (better).
- meric 12y agoYou could use the same method as demoex to achieve that - take the idea of "proxies" from shareholder votes. Anyone and pick anyone as a proxy. Now all you've got to solve is the problem of cycles.