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Liquid democracy [1] ( eng. Liquid democracy , sometimes called delegative democracy ) is a form of democratic control, according to which the electorate gives the right to choose delegates , not representatives . The term is a general description of either existing or proposed people's control apparatuses [2] .
Based on the concept of liquid democracy, each person can either vote on each issue directly, or delegate his vote to another person, whom he considers more competent in this matter. This person becomes a delegate to perform certain tasks for any period of time, but authority can be revoked at any time. Potentially, each system participant can be a delegate [3] .
Content
Delegation form
The provisions of liquid democracy were summarized by Brian Ford in his article Delegative Democracy, which contains the following principles: [4]
- Role selection: each member can choose either a passive role, casting his vote to the delegate, or an active delegate role. Delegates have another choice - how much and in what areas they want to be active.
- Low barrier to participation: difficulties and costs of becoming a delegate are small and, in particular, do not require a political campaign or win competitive elections .
- Delegation of authority: delegates exercise authority in organizational processes on behalf of themselves and those who choose them as their delegate. Therefore, different delegates may use different levels of decision-making authority.
- Personal Confidentiality: To avoid social pressure or coercion, all voices made by individuals are anonymous, both for others and for delegates.
- Delegates Accountability: To ensure that delegates are accountable to their constituencies and the community as a whole, all formal deliberative decisions made by delegates are completely public (or in some forms only their constituencies are visible).
- Specialization using re-delegation: delegates can not only act directly on behalf of people as universals, but also by re-delegation they can also act on behalf of each other as specialists.
Differences from representative democracy
Differences from direct democracy
See also
- Collaborative filtering
- Indirect elections
Notes
- ↑ Liquid Democracy , The P2P Foundation Wiki , < https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Liquid_Democracy > . Checked August 11, 2016. .
- ↑ Bryan Ford (November 16, 2014), Delegative Democracy Revisited , < https://bford.imtqy.com/2014/11/16/deleg.html > . Checked August 11, 2016.
- ↑ Why Bitcoin will destroy the state and lead to anarchy // Lenta.ru April 15, 2016
- ↑ Bryan Ford (May 15, 2002), Delegative Democracy , < http://www.brynosaurus.com/deleg/deleg.pdf > . Checked August 11, 2016.