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  {{prop | Currency of guidance | consensus | {{#tag:ref|{{PAGENAME}} is intended as "a deliberative institution which allows the entire electorate to continually and substantively participate in the legislative process".<ref name='Piv09p2'>Piv09, p. 2</ref>|name=consensus}} }}
  {{prop | Date | 2007 | <ref>Dating from the archived draft http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3965/.</ref> }}
  {{prop | Is candidate mutable | true | {{#tag:ref|Viewing the candidate as a kind of pyramidal party that the participant chooses "based on ideological affinity",<ref name='Piv09p5'>Piv09, p. 5</ref> that candidate is mutable in its membership and other properties.}} }}
  {{prop | Is inclusive | true | <ref name='consensus'/> }}
  {{prop | Purpose | Stuff:Decision | {{#tag:ref|The participants together decide the membership of a legislative assembly.  "The top Tier (called the Parliament)... will be part of the legislative branch of the government."<ref>Piv09, p. 3</ref>|name=decision}} }}
  {{prop | Issue type | Category:Multiple offices | {{#tag:ref|In deciding the membership of the assembly,<ref name='decision'/> one's participation is not limited to deciding the issue of a specific office or seat, as it would be in a single-winner method.  "Citizens choose a node based on ideological affinity, rather than being assigned a node based on geographical proximity."<ref name='Piv09p5'/>  It is more like party-list proportional representation with open lists.}} }}
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  {{prop | Temporal continuity | continuous | {{#tag:ref|The issue is continuously decided because  'a member can “defect” from a node at any time if she is dissatisfied with the consensus position of that node', and the '[d]elegates can be replaced at any time.'<ref name='Piv09p5'/>}} }}
  {{prop | Width | 888 | {{#tag:ref|Infinite.  "Citizens self-organize into ... nodes"<ref name='Piv09p2'/> that are themselves the immedidate candidates.  The range of choice this opens is effectively unbound.}} }}
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====Bibliography====
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<span>Piv09</span>  Marcus J. Pivato.  2009.  Pyramidal democracy. ''Journal of Public Deliberation.''  '''5''':1.  http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol5/iss1/art8/
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