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Rescuing Democracy /

This book proposes a new institution -- the 'People's Forum' -- to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suff...

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Main Author: Smith, Paul E. (Paul Edmund) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Deliberative democracy.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Signs of failure
  • Diagnosing dysfunction. Democratic dysfunction from fundamental structure
  • Susceptibility to dysfunction : types of democracy
  • A pervasive symptom of dysfunction : escalating the scarcity of natural capital
  • Prescribing a remedy. The people's forum : a deliberative aid for liberal democracies
  • Design details of the people's forum
  • Likely reactions to the forum
  • Supporting devices, performance indicators and trialing the people's forum.

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