Tagged “direct-democracy”
- Phones Moved Toward Freedom One Concession at a Time, and So Does Power
- Why a Representative Government Cannot Settle an Issue Even When the Public Has Settled It
- Voting for a Person Is How You Get Rid of the Responsibility to Understand
- Try to Define "The Good of the People" and See What You Get
- Representation Does Our Understanding for Us, and Keeps the Change
- Every Right We Have Was Pried From a Closed Fist, and Look What Is Still in It
- Treat the Government as a Black Box and Measure the Distance to the Public
- Read the Spec of Representative Democracy as If Someone Were Proposing It Today
- Democratic Values Need Constant Maintenance, and That Tells You Who Is Eroding Them
- Representative Democracy Cannot Bind Its Future Self
- Wars Have Several Causes, and the Betrayal of the People Is Only One
- The Singularity Breaks Ideologies
- The Tragedy of the Commons Is Worse When a Minority Holds the Commons
- The Central Bank Is a Standing Vote of No Confidence in Our Representatives
- If You Had to Give Up One Election, Give Up the City
- A Pre-Commitment to Expropriate the Rich If the Climate Breaks
- A Law That Forces the Legislature to Answer One Question Every Two Months
- When an Institution Fails in an Emergency, Inject Randomly Chosen Citizens Into It
- If Existential Risk Is What Matters, Direct Democracy Is Not Optional
- Why Truth-Finding Rejects Democracy but Politics Requires It
- Every Catastrophe Is Paid For in Liberties, and the System Is Glad to Collect
- The Rat Race Is a Forest of Trees That Cannot Agree to Stay Short
- Your Insurer Is Paid to Fail You
- Housing Is a Product You Must Buy, and Capitalism Has No Answer for Those
- You Cannot Fool All the People All the Time, So Do Not Let a Decision Stand Still
- Everyone Who Wants World Government Has No Route to It, Except One
- Free Societies Are Resented Because Their Governments Arm the Jailers
- Dispersed Power Is More Moral
- Jefferson Wrote Down the Right to Replace a Government, and We Filed It Away
- The Wisdom of Crowds Only Appears Under Conditions, and the First Pillar Meets Them
- We Already Pay the Price of Freedom, We Just Do Not Collect the Goods
- We Demand Freedoms We Have Never Weighed
- The Law Encodes One Morality and the Public Holds Another
- Seven Things Wrong With Sortition
- The West Lost Its Religion and Was Handed Nothing to Think About Instead
- Three Conditions Decide Whether Direct Democracy Can Take Root
- Direct Democracy Does Not Decide Technical Questions, It Decides Who Inspects Them
- Who Sets the Dose of Self-Deception a Society Runs On?
- Trading With Dictators Is a Nash Equilibrium, and Only a Coalition Can Leave It
- Intersubjective Reality Changes Slowly Because Hierarchies Own It
- Direct Democracy Shows Where Morals Actually Come From
- The Shalit Case Was Never Discussed, Because Nobody Trusted the Government to Discuss It
- A War the Majority Chose Is a War You Can Fight
- A Weak Regime Cannot Hold the Social Contract Together
- Law Without Tradition and Authority
- Many of Our Legal Norms Are Workarounds for a Government We Cannot Control
- Jared Diamond's Surviving Societies Had One Thing in Common, and Representative Government Does Not Have It
- Four Roads to Direct Democracy, and Why the Destination Is More Certain Than the Route
- Being Part of Something Larger Makes People Happy, and Voting Every Four Years Is Not It
- Habermas Was Right About the Channels and Wrong About the Manners
- Every Regulatory Dilemma Is Really a Trust Dilemma
- A Voting Formula for a Party That Takes Its Orders From the Public
- Direct Democracy Will Not Slide Back Into Autocracy, Because Nobody Wants It To
- Minority Rule Is What Lets the Majority Keep Its Myths
- A System of Government That Needs Mass Support to Exist Is More Likely to Last
- Direct Democracy Can Be More Liberal Than Any Representative Regime
- Direct Democracy Is the Natural Arrangement, Representation Is the Strange One
- Biology Proves Hierarchy Is Optional
- Direct Democracy Is the Open Wrestling of Groups, and Open Is Better
- Direct Democracy Is Also a Weapon in the Struggle Between Regimes
- Economists Argue About Value Because Nobody Is Allowed to Negotiate It
- The Planet Would Vote Against Nuclear Weapons, and Cannot
- Representative Government Hoards Information, and the Hoarding Is the Point
- Large Events Come From Stored Tension, and Direct Democracy Releases It Early
- What Computers Can Honestly Do for Collective Decisions
- Climate Change Will Be Used to Roll Back Democracy Unless the System Changes First
- The Attribution Error Is What Keeps the Political System Unquestioned
- Institutions Almost Never Die, and That Fact Is Evidence
- Freedom as a Conserved Quantity
- The Business Cycle Has a Political Factor Economists Leave Out
- The Higher You Climb, the Less Free You Are
- The Two-Party System Corrupts Institutions, Not Just Voters
- The System Asks What Wins, Never What Is Right
- Representative Government Forces Every Debate to the Wrong Altitude
- The Structural Advantages of Being a Known Political Liar
- Buchanan, Olson, and the Economic Case for Direct Democracy
- Design the Process, Don't Write the Law
- Political Problems May Need a Language We Have Not Built Yet