Representative Democracy

  About Representative government   Peter Taits explanation of representation: consent, legitimacy and accountability An ecology of Representation provides some background theory for explaining CAPaD’s objective in focusing on representation in participatory democratic theory.   Further reading list Creating political presence seeks possible methods for strengthening community representation in politics … Read More

Hare Clark System

  The Hare Clark system of voting Hare-Clark is a type of proportional representation system known as the single transferable vote method.   How ACT and Tasmanian votes are counted Under the ACT’s Hare-Clarke voting system (see here for more detail) we elect five MLAs for each of the five … Read More

Electoral systems

The Australian Electoral Commission website (2012) has lots of information. The section Learn About elections contains sections on Delivering an Election, Voting and the Government, and For educators   Electoral Systems

The workings of the Australian Government

The text explains the key workings of the Federal government. It digs deeper into the types and forms of legislative, executive and judiciary systems in Australia that play a key role in identifying, updating and developing laws consistent with the community idea of democracy. Federal Government- Executive How is the … Read More

Democracy

Types of Government Democracy – a dip into the political science Democracy through multi-body sortition: Athenian lessons for the modern day. represents democracy as a representative system while making a new model of lawmaking using multiple allotted bodies which resolves these dilemmas and which can be implemented in many ways … Read More

What is governance and democracy?

Governance and Politics Finding out about how governance Three forms of Australian government defines and explains the three forms of representative government in Australia. The online portal of the museum The Museum of democracy shares stories of Australian democracy . A glossary of governance and democracy : a page with … Read More

The three levels of Government in Australia

A brief summary explaining the three forms of representative government in Australia in at poster and in more detail on the Australian Electoral Commission website (which links to lots of other material).    

The Australian Experience

Manfred Hellrigl: YouTube of his talk “Local development and empowerment, methods and inspiration” at Göteborg 2012, describing practical developments with citizen participation (modeled on Wisdom Councils) in western Austria. A summary of the “Bürgerrat” [Citizens’ Council] approach from Vorarlberg, Austria. NewDemocracy Paper: Citizens’ Councils: What are they, and why are they so … Read More

Things CAPaD is doing

More information on CAPaD’s activity is available on the main website here.   Raising awareness of new ways for representation Awakening Democracy by Robust Representation – Pearls and Irritations article by Peter Tait, Beth Slatyer, Sue Ingram and Bob Douglas, 2020. To achieve CAPaD’s aim of trusted, accountable representatives engaging the … Read More

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