[liberationtech] Democracy (was: Re: Would you like to put the list under permanent moderation?

[David Stodolsky]

> On 12 Jan 2020, at 02:25, Rand Strauss <Rand at PeopleCount.org> wrote:
> 
>> Direct democracy and generally direct action assumes an interaction between an individual and a state of the world / physical object. So, the above definition is limited to a republican form of governance. It isn’t possible to compare two things, if the definitional frame eliminates one from consideration.
> 
> We’re not comparing "two things."  We’re looking at how democratic current political systems are.  Republics aim to be democratic as well as constitutional.  They can be evaluated along both axes.  They can be evaluated along other axes as well as others, such as how free they are, or how equitable they are, though these aren’t part of the explicit definition of "republic"…
> -r


We are not looking at how democratic systems are. You specifically rejected any empirical determination and you reject the theoretical distinction I presented. My question is how to operationalize a concept like representation within a republican form of government.


dss

David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
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dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070

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