<div dir="ltr">Check out Liquid Democracy, now used at Google:<div><a href="http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series">http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Tara Maya <<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>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). </div></blockquote><br><div>I've read about sortition before, and it sounds like it might fix some problems, such as influence peddling. See:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_2_knag.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_2_knag.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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