Interactive Democracy

 According to this Avaaz petition British " police have just told a group of climate change campaigners they must hire a private s...

Lu Hong and Scott Page in their paper "Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers"...

Change.org has a new petition by Jolyon Rubinstein: Make Lying in Parliament History. You can sign it here. Lying in a democracy reminds...

Demoex (from democracy experiment) has a representative in Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm. Any local resident over the age of 16 can v...

Digital Democracy UK is already up and running. Here's their summary: "Digital Democracy is a campaigning website that does t...

Matthew Lynn has written a piece in MoneyWeek (21/11/14): "Why Britain should copy Switzerland's referendums". Available her...

Alongside the recent Congressional elections Americans also voted on a range of local initiatives including gun controls, marijuana, abort...

In this TED talk Jeremy Heimans describes what New Power looks like. Why should you listen to him? Because he's an ex-McKinsey strategy...

5 years ago I wrote about the Baby P scandal and how it related to Interactive Democracy . Now there's a new TV programme from the BBC...

This fascinating TED talk by Pia Mancini describes how her group in Argentina developed a democracy app, Democracy OS, which they tried to ...

I've written before that direct democracy could be a useful pressure release valve for political activists who would be better persuad...

In "The Great Degeneration" Niall Ferguson argues that inclusive institutions, not culture, explain the success of the West. ...

There has been some concern expressed amongst the financial press that promises made to Scotland will cause budgetary uncertainty and dev...

What's most important, accurate information or democracy? Democracy allows us to express our values and wants but it also expresses our...

Could one of the reasons for a substantial number of Scots wanting to split from the UK be that we have an ineffective democracy? On sever...

There's a problem with sacking politicians. For example, Councillor Robert Bleakley of Tyldesley ran up bills of £2400 calling sex lin...

Gordon Brown has announced a new deal for Scotland to encourage the 'No' vote, despite postal votes having already been cast, prob...

"I can't see how anyone can be a rational voter without some grasp of how economies work. This has been brought home to me by the...

"Democracy's not all it's cracked up to be you know" is the title of  Tim Worstall's Adam Smith's Institute post...

Politics could be seen as trying to satisfy as many people as possible by constructing the best compromise. The government that achieves t...

A thought for the day: disempowerment leads to violence. Political protests can become riots. One vote per household in Northern Ireland ...

The Lobbying Act has been dubbed the gagging law by some people as it restricts "the ability of third parties to campaign in election...

A good voting system should be free from intimidation, be accurate and assured. Originally I envisioned that an Interactive Democracy acco...

"In areas ranging from local zoning laws to intellectual property protection, from financial regulation to energy subsidies, public...

MoneyWeek publisher Bill Bonner introduces the concept of "poligarchs".  He explains it in The Daily Reckoning (20/5/14) and h...