Selecting good representatives

Sites to help select between candidates Smartvote Australia: a website matching citizens to candidates who share your opinions. A tool developed to explore how the views of citizens align with those of candidates Vote compass. A website making elections simple by connecting voters and candidates Vote Easy. Open Australia aims … Read More

Improving Accountability

Governing with the people Improving accountability Political Gadgets “Free tools providing insights into what our politicians stand for.” Actually “this site is all about information. Shining some light on what’s going on. Giving people tools to understand what their representative is really doing.”   They vote for you records and reports how … Read More

Governing with the people

Active Governing The Australian Experience New Democracy Foundation focuses on the advantages of citizen deliberation in improving democracy The ACTCOSS journal issue 90 is a springboard for reflective practices and the changes we hope to see by 2020. Reforming our democracy provides a list of reforms available to improve democracy. … Read More

Methods for Democracy

The workings of government Peacock Politics Adam Peacock asks politicians and leading commentators to cut the crap and to explain simply how the Australian political system functions, why it was set up the way it was and if they think it needs an overhaul. Here or your favourite podcast app. … Read More

Dissatisfaction with government

Dissatisfaction with government and democracy Trust in Government “Are people dissatisfied with democracy or are they really dissatisfied with government or with the failure of government and the behavior of our parliamentarians? Each means a different response is required. Fundamentally we want good government to be delivering for our wellbeing. … Read More

Inclusive Democracy

  Inclusive government   in his book Towards and Inclusive democracy offers a powerful interpretation of neo-liberalism and new forms of socialism.  

Polycentric Democracy

  Polycentric government   Beyond markets and states describes Ostrom’s journey in developing and analyzing the system of Polycentric government in metropolitan cities. The struggle to govern the commons explains the difficulty in developing ideal conditions for governance given the critical problems of transboundary pollution, tropical deforestation and climate change; … Read More

Demarchy Democracy

  Demarchy government   John Burnheim explains Demarchy as organizing completely open but focused discussion which culminate into final assesments of a new branch of democracy

Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

Deliberative government Participatory and Deliberative Democracy are complementary methods for engaging community in government. Deliberative methods are a means to enhance community participation.   In his book Deliberating in the real world Parkinson’s attempts to solve two major problems in deliberative democratic theory by rethinking deliberative theory. The Journal of … Read More

Non-Electoral Representative democracy

  Non-Electoral Representative government : Sortition   Peter Tait dwells deeper into David Reybrouck’s theory of selection using sortition to deal with ballot box fatigue. Democracy through multi-body sortition is Terrill Bouricius’s attempt at connecting selection by sortition to the Athenian lessons of modern day  

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