[ExI] Fail to the chief?

[Jason Resch]

Check out Liquid Democracy, now used at Google:
http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series

Jason

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:
>
> One of the few serious alternatives to democracy that I’ve considered
> might work is a system of Representative Consensus. A council of twelve,
> rather like a jury, is chosen by random selection from the pool of eligible
> citizens, and they perform as the Executive, discussing decisions and
> coming to a conclusion by consensus. In rare cases where consensus could
> not be reached, the entire council would be re-drawn. (So it would be like
> the Ultimate Game, in that those groups who could not reach a compromise
> would be punished.)
>
> This still would work best if power were devolved as much as possible, on
> as many issues as possible, to the most localized form of governance
> possible. (Federation should be a real thing, not just of states but of
> counties within states and cities within counties).
>
>
> I've read about sortition before, and it sounds like it might fix some
> problems, such as influence peddling. See:
>
> https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_2_knag.pdf
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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