Stuff:Pyramidal democracy
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- URL (http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol5/iss1/art8/)
- Currency of guidance (consensus) 2
- Date (2007) 3
- Is candidate mutable (true) 5
- Is inclusive (true) 2
- Purpose (Stuff:Decision) 7
- Issue type (Category:Multiple offices) 8
- Stage (unspecified)
- Temporal continuity (continuous) 9
- Width (888) 10
Bibliography
Piv09 Marcus J. Pivato. 2009. Pyramidal democracy. Journal of Public Deliberation. 5:1. http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol5/iss1/art8/
Notes
- ^ a b Piv09, p. 2
- ^ a b Pyramidal democracy is intended as "a deliberative institution which allows the entire electorate to continually and substantively participate in the legislative process".1
- ^ Dating from the archived draft http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3965/.
- ^ a b c Piv09, p. 5
- ^ Viewing the candidate as a kind of pyramidal party that the participant chooses "based on ideological affinity",4 that candidate is mutable in its membership and other properties.
- ^ Piv09, p. 3
- ^ a b 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."6
- ^ In deciding the membership of the assembly,7 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."4 It is more like party-list proportional representation with open lists.
- ^ 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.'4
- ^ Infinite. "Citizens self-organize into ... nodes"1 that are themselves the immedidate candidates. The range of choice this opens is effectively unbound.
