The purpose of this post is to be a persuasive argument for my proposed system of democracy.
If you want to propose a new system of democracy, why focus on the nation state level?
We could try new styles of democracy for student representation at universities. Getting democracy inside a community of students that attend an university to work is a much easier problem than getting a nation state democracy to work.
If you have really cool ideas you have a chance in convincing a body of students at an university to change the type of democracy that they use.
In Germany parts of the pirate party do govern themselves via liquid democracy. The didn’t simply try the established form of democracy but used a new one.
Comparing Citizendium with Wikipedia is also useful. Citizendium tried to have a much more bureaucratic structure and that made it hard to make good decisions that move the project forward.
There are many communities that need a system to govern themselves and nation states are the hardest to convince to switch to a new unproven system.
If you want to propose a new system of democracy, why focus on the nation state level?
We could try new styles of democracy for student representation at universities. Getting democracy inside a community of students that attend an university to work is a much easier problem than getting a nation state democracy to work.
If you have really cool ideas you have a chance in convincing a body of students at an university to change the type of democracy that they use.
In Germany parts of the pirate party do govern themselves via liquid democracy. The didn’t simply try the established form of democracy but used a new one.
Comparing Citizendium with Wikipedia is also useful. Citizendium tried to have a much more bureaucratic structure and that made it hard to make good decisions that move the project forward.
There are many communities that need a system to govern themselves and nation states are the hardest to convince to switch to a new unproven system.