Interactive Democracy

Direct Democracy on the Internet

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Too Poor to Protest?

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 According to this Avaaz petition British " police have just told a group of climate change campaigners they must hire a private s...
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Saturday, 6 December 2014

Diversity Trumps Ability

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Lu Hong and Scott Page in their paper "Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers"...
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Thursday, 4 December 2014

Make Lying in Parliament History - A Petition

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Change.org has a new petition by Jolyon Rubinstein: Make Lying in Parliament History. You can sign it here. Lying in a democracy reminds...
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Friday, 28 November 2014

Demoex

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Demoex (from democracy experiment) has a representative in Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm. Any local resident over the age of 16 can v...
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Thursday, 27 November 2014

Digital Democracy UK

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Digital Democracy UK is already up and running. Here's their summary: "Digital Democracy is a campaigning website that does t...
Monday, 24 November 2014

Why Britain should copy Switzerland's referendums

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Matthew Lynn has written a piece in MoneyWeek (21/11/14): "Why Britain should copy Switzerland's referendums". Available her...
Thursday, 6 November 2014

Americans Vote on Initiatives

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Alongside the recent Congressional elections Americans also voted on a range of local initiatives including gun controls, marijuana, abort...
Tuesday, 4 November 2014

New Power

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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...
Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Baby P: The Untold Story

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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...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Struggling to Upgrade Democracy in Argentina

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This fascinating TED talk by Pia Mancini describes how her group in Argentina developed a democracy app, Democracy OS, which they tried to ...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Referendum, Pressure Release Valve or Pressure Cooker?

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I've written before that direct democracy could be a useful pressure release valve for political activists who would be better persuad...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Inclusive Institutions, not Culture

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In "The Great Degeneration" Niall Ferguson argues that inclusive institutions, not culture, explain the success of the West. ...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Budgeting in Switzerland

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There has been some concern expressed amongst the financial press that promises made to Scotland will cause budgetary uncertainty and dev...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Information Democracy

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What's most important, accurate information or democracy? Democracy allows us to express our values and wants but it also expresses our...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Ineffective Democracy

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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...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Sacking Politicians

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

New Deal

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Gordon Brown has announced a new deal for Scotland to encourage the 'No' vote, despite postal votes having already been cast, prob...
Friday, 5 September 2014

The Rational Voter

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"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...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

"Democracy's not all it's cracked up to be..."

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"Democracy's not all it's cracked up to be you know" is the title of  Tim Worstall's Adam Smith's Institute post...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Politics: The Art of Best Compromise

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Politics could be seen as trying to satisfy as many people as possible by constructing the best compromise. The government that achieves t...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Disempowerment

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A thought for the day: disempowerment leads to violence. Political protests can become riots. One vote per household in Northern Ireland ...
Friday, 4 July 2014

Gagging Law

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The Lobbying Act has been dubbed the gagging law by some people as it restricts "the ability of third parties to campaign in election...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Secret Ballots and Cryptocurrency

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A good voting system should be free from intimidation, be accurate and assured. Originally I envisioned that an Interactive Democracy acco...
Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Working the Political System

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"In areas ranging from local zoning laws to intellectual property protection, from financial regulation to energy subsidies, public...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Oligarchs and Poligarchs

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MoneyWeek publisher Bill Bonner introduces the concept of "poligarchs".  He explains it in The Daily Reckoning (20/5/14) and h...
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About Interactive Democracy
This site seeks to contribute to the debate on improving democracy. The proposed "Interactive Democracy" system utilises Information Technology to allow anyone to suggest a policy by ePetition (Ideas Engine). Those with sufficient support would be refined by the elected Parliament, taking into account similar and opposing proposals, to form laws to be ratified by national referendum. The elected government is then responsible for implementing the new law or directive. Modern technology can facilitate this in a secure and cost effective manner. It can also enhance the debate by enabling the "pros" and "cons" to be aired and by allowing voters to pose questions. This system recognises that today's politicians have no mechanism for reliably discovering what the majority of their constituents think on any one issue and they may also be confounded in their ability to vote on their constituents behalf by the power of the party whips. Comments and questions are welcome. (The oldest post is at the bottom.)
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