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	Emergent democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emergent democracy refers to the Internet phenomenon change of the geopolitical landscape to increasingly reflect more democratic principles.
		It is used in the context of defining a political rift in the current world order between the interests of corporate-run business and the public, and to describe the new abilities of the public to organize with a newfound realistic capability of trancending the preexisting and established order.
		The conversation resulted in an Emergent Democracy paper [2] that generated many discussions about the potential for weblogs and other social software tools to have an impact on participation in governance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emergent_democracy (625 words)

	E-democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are numerous practical and theoretical issues which have yet to be scoped, understood or solved, and work is underway in many democracies on a wide and diverse set of experiments and trials to test approaches and techniques.
		Some traditional objections to direct democracy are argued to apply to e-democracy, such as the potential for governance to tend towards populism and demagoguery.
		Electronic direct democracy is a form of direct democracy in which modern communication media are used to ameliorate the bureaucracy involved with referenda on many issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E-democracy (1193 words)

	EmergentDemocracyPaper - Joi Ito Wiki
		In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." In the words of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."[3]
		Representative democracy also allows leaders to specialize and focus in order to formulate opinions about the variety of complex issues, which need to be resolved where an uneducated and uninterested population could not be expected to directly understand all of the issues.
		A competition of ideas is essential for a democracy to embrace the diversity of its citizens and protect the rights of the minority, while allowing the consensus of the majority to rule.
	joi.ito.com /joiwiki/EmergentDemocracyPaper (5395 words)

	Gotzeblogged: Emergent Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emergent Democracy by Joichi Ito is the first good essay I have read about blogging and democracy:
		Emergent democracy has the potential to solve many of the problems we face in the exceedingly complex world at both the national and global scale.
		Joi's Emergent Democracy article is great I think it lost a lot of steam, though and never really got past a "study".
	gotzespace.dk /archives/2003/02/emergent_democracy.html (273 words)

	LUX.ET.UMBRA: State of Emergent Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emergent democracy refers to the internet phenomenon of web-based communications platforms to change the geopolitical landscape to increasingly reflect...
		Emergent democracy refers to the internet phenomenon of web-based communications platforms to change the geopolitical landscape to increasingly reflect more democratic principles.
		I find that the concept of emergent democracy should not be foreign to Greensboro since we have been a piece of the pie all along.
	life.firelace.com /2004/12/state_of_emergent_democracy.html (666 words)

	Making Connections
		Representational democracy is emergent democracy - it is one of the political structures that has emerged as human social interaction has scaled way beyond its relatively recent (in evolutionary timescales) origins.
		But by definition, emergent patterns are not predictable from their starting conditions or an understanding of their micro behaviours and motives.
		But Ito's vision of emergent democracy is predicated on much greater levels of involvement, both intellectually and practically (ie you need to both understand the issues and do something about them).
	radio.weblogs.com /0118812/2003/02/25.html (1584 words)

	1 Emergent Democracy
		Democracy is itself an incomplete and emergent political system, and must, by its nature, adapt to new ideas and evolving social standards.
		Representative democracy, wherein elected representatives of the people are chosen through a voting mechanism, is considered by most to be the only possible way to manage a democracy of significant scale.
		Representative democracy allows leaders to specialize and focus on the complex issues of governance, which an uneducated and uninterested general population could not be expected to grasp.
	joi.ito.com /static/emergentdemocracy.html (7553 words)

	v-2 Organisation \| news \| On parallel tracks, and other developments in emergent democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emergent democracy's detractors - and there are more than a few - have seen fit to insult the idea's adherents, using every timeworn calumny and rhetorical device at their disposal, not excluding some bizarre and largely incoherent ad hominem attacks.
		Or do they simply believe that democracy itself is a bad idea, that Plato was right when he called for the benevolent rule of a Guardian class over a mass of drones too easily deceived to guide their own affairs in depth and over the long term?
		At this stage of the game, trying to suppress the discussions around emergent democracy (by insult, by condescending displays of "knowledge" or credential) amounts to an admission that one prefers the status quo to anything that might potentially grow out of these discussions.
	www.v-2.org /displayArticle.php?article_num=415 (557 words)

	Emergent Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." In the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
		Representative democracy where elected representatives of the people are chosen through a voting mechanism is considered by most to be the only way to properly manage a large democracy.
		Many democracies are dominated by the extremists and corporate interests, the silent majority have very little input in the selection of representatives or the critical debate.
	www.weblogsky.com /Emergent_Democracy_jon.html (4998 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Lobbying for Emergent Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emergent Pluralism depicts a society whose members who have institutional loyalties to easily form issue groups that have direct interaction their elected representatives and the media.
		If emergent democracy is to take hold, its mechanisms for group forming need to leverage how institutional decisions are influenced, not a new form of direct democracy.
		While adoption of these tools is relatively small, emergent constituencies that use them have proven their ability to influence, largely through the means of individualized pluralism: petitions, shaping media, emailing representatives, activism and facilitating grassroots support.
	ross.typepad.com /blog/2003/11/lobbying_for_em.html (453 words)

	RatcliffeBlog - Mitch Thinking Out Loud: The Mayfield Distinction
		In early democracies, every citizen--a narrowly defined group of patricians, in most cases--was expected to be involved.
		Joi Ito adds to this metalogue: "Emergent democracy IS NOT the same as using technology to scale direct democracy.
		Emergent democracy is about leadership through giving up control, activating the people to engage through deliberation and action, and allowing emergent order to grow from the grass roots.
	www.ratcliffe.com /RatcliffeBlog/archives/001244.html (468 words)

	Emergent Democracy, Participatory Economics and Social Software: Corante > Brain Waves >
		The growing emergent democracy movement provides an excellent example of how IT's latest innovation, social software, is reshaping the political landscape.
		Yesterday's digital democracy teach-in at E-tech used social software to share and capture the latest emergent democracy issues in the US, developing nations, and across the world.
		emergent democracy is not direct democracy) it has yet to define or adopt an economic framework to compliment its goals.
	www.corante.com /brainwaves/archives/emergent_democracy_participatory_economics_and_social_software.php (918 words)

	apostropher: Emergent Democracy and the Second Superpower
		And where deliberation in the first superpower is done primarily by a few elected or appointed officials, deliberation in the second superpower is done by each individual—making sense of events, communicating with others, and deciding whether and how to join in community actions.
		Finally, where participation in democracy in the first superpower feels remote to most citizens, the emergent democracy of the second superpower is alive with touching and being touched by each other, as the community works to create wisdom and to take action.
		His essay "Emergent Democracy" looks in rather deeper detail at the formation of this movement and the political economy and theory of it.
	www.apostropher.com /blog/archives/000110.html (1199 words)

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Fractal Democracy
		The basic unit of organization in an extreme democracy is the activist, a citizen engaged with an issue of concern about which they are willing to invest their time and effort to evolve relevant policy, whether at the local, state, national or international level.
		If the 'dominant form of democracy' that you refer to is representative democracy, it is broken in the sense that the connection between representatives and those represented is lost, and I don't think the responsibility for repair rests on the shoulders of the representatives.
		Those think their only role in a democracy is to vote, then go away – or to complain among your friends, but outside the process and with no action other than verbalization – those people, and they are most of us, will have to change in order to have input to governance.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001417.html (7306 words)

	bestkungfu weblog » Panel: Emerging democracy
		Zach Rosen: This idea of emergent democracy “is too far ahead for me… it’s just science fiction (right now).” The transformation in emergent democracy is cultural.
		Emergent behavior is happening in places, like the Dean campaign, or open-source culture.
		Ito: In emergent systems, the position of authority is not the position of control.
	www.bestkungfu.com /archive/?id=429 (685 words)

	Emergent Democracy / Open Source Politics - Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emergent democracy allows roles for a wider variety of actors than traditional politics.
		As we think about emergent democracy in this week's reading and lecture, I wonder if we can discuss how some of the concepts and cooeprative and collective strategies could apply to this type of problem.
		When theorists argue that democracies are based on consent, they mean that the entirety of a democracy’s legitimate strength and stability derives from the allegiance of citizens.
	cooperation.smartmobs.com /cs/taxonomy/term/10 (486 words)

	AkuAku: Comment on happening: emergent democracy
		Posted by Adam Greenfield at April 23, 2003 03:11 AM Emergent democracy is from the bottom up instead of the top down.
		I believe Emergent Democracy can take a two-pronged approach, both addressing some of the problems in existing systems, and building alternatives that can replace existing systems in part or whole.
		Emergent Democracy is not (yet) a term with a particularly fixed meaning.
	akuaku.org /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=308 (595 words)

	how a few Irish Voted and "Not Voted". - Indymedia Ireland
		Many foreign observers, feel that the Republic of Eire has not reached the stage of democracy where organised abstention is considered either a censure on the government (of ruling parties and opposition) or to discredit the election process, as there has been no sign of "inclusive" all party dialogue and co-operation in the Irish state.
		With these elections it is hoped by the ruling class of the Republic of Eire that their status as an emergent democracy will be assured and that they won't be attracting critical UN resolutions.
		Democracy for its continued progress is reliant on the emergent political class to which, exists and grows regardless of social economic class, it grows wherever the seeds of democracy, communality of purpose in upholding the civilised values of democratic society have been sown.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68958&results_offset=70 (2440 words)

	The Art of Peace
		At first they may not seem susceptible to analysis as emergent phenomena, since by definition totalitarianism is a command system, and the greatest terrorist threat today demands obedience (at least nominally) to a strict and inflexible code of behavior.
		This is not the first time they have been discussed as an emergent system, yet I think it's important to study their dynamics as deeply as possible if civilization is in a war to the death with them - we must know their strengths and weaknesses better than they know ours.
		Topic Exchange on emergent democracy is not a blog, but a dialog among blogs.
	www.theartofpeace.blogspot.com /2003_02_16_theartofpeace_archive.html (4310 words)

	BookBlog: Emergent Democracy Threads
		The emergent democracy discussion has attracted various criticisms and defenses.
		Richard Bennett suggests that the discussion is pointless, because some of the arguments in favor of emergent democracy are fuzzy, and because politicians aren't paying any attention.
		Democracy's success is in facilitating informed discussion and debate and ensuring participation in the process that determines policy; it's not about favoring one end over another.
	alevin.com /weblog/archives/000982.html (730 words)

	Emergent Democracy and Stigmergy
		A recent paper by Joichi Ito describes the notion of emergent democracy.
		Policy and consensus arise as emergent properties of the "blogosphere" in this model; that is to say, the individual transactions, postings and links of bloggers don't in themselves constitute a democratic system, but their collective behavior creates a kind of "intellectual commons" that does.
		Emergent democracy is potentially enabled by internet technology, sure; but what other emergent behaviors arise from the systems we already have--and will continue to arise even if we eliminated representational democracy and lived entirely in the blogosphere?
	www.kschroeder.com /blog/1076342899/index_html (1985 words)

	[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ] : Blogging at the centre of emerging democracy
		Weblogs are central to his notion of emergent democracy.
		That's emergent democracy, he says, and he wonders how best to support it.
		People thought we'd have a global vision but all we got is noise." So, rather than emergent democracy, one might get an emergent mob as millions take up blogging.
	radio.weblogs.com /0103966/stories/2003/06/03/bloggingAtTheCentreOfEmergingDemocracy.html (898 words)

	Joi Ito's TypePad: Emegent democracy brainstorming with John Vasconcellos and friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I assumed he would know something about democracy so I sent him my emergent democracy paper and asked him for his thoughts.
		I agreed with them that a direct democracy in our current environment was not feasible, but that maybe our thoughts on emergent democracy might, in the short term, be a great tool for supporting a the "not functioning well, but functioning barely" representative democracy that we have today.
		I said that I would like to engage the toolmakers to think about democracy as the tools are developed and that the Net can so easily cause harm and the architecture of the tools can have an effect on the future of democracy.
	joi.typepad.com /weblog/2003/03/emegent_democra.html (808 words)

	i d e a n t: Beyond [emergent] democracy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also, while it is true that direct democracy does not scale well, we also have to recognize that the speed at which the internet is scaling does not make it very manageable, either.
		One of the basic critiques of democracy is that it assumes an omnicompetent citizen: a human being who has access to the right information, has the education necessary to interpret that information, and can make informed decisions about the world.
		One can use it to contest current power structures and reintegrate citizens into a political life, or it can be used to hijack whatever is left of our already faulty democratic institutions, as the electronic theft of 16,000 votes on election night 2000 shows.
	ideant.typepad.com /ideant/2003/10/emergent_democr.html (786 words)

	ThoughtStorms: EmergentDemocracy
		An emergent democracy which raises issues plans, combined with a statutory right for all citizens to vote on them.
		And the fear I've started having about the "emergent democracy" conversation is that it's helping to obscure the debate, because it's muddying the terms.
		When you look at democracy from the historical perspective you see that democracy was an emergent behaviour.
	www.nooranch.com /synaesmedia/wiki/wiki.cgi?EmergentDemocracy (740 words)

	Extreme Democracy
		I really appreciated Extreme Democracy, especially some essays, but at the same time, I hoped for a theoretization of a new form of democracy, something like the 'absolute democracy' concept of Negri in Multitudes, and did not really find it.
		With a network-centric approach to advocacy (what I used to call nodal politics), members of the activist network connect as peers, and they all have authority to act and make decisions relevant to their context.
		I had my civics badge; I knew functional democracies are actually republics or representative democracies where popular will is delegated to government infrastructure with checks and balances to keep the wolves - and kings - at bay.
	www.extremedemocracy.com (1888 words)

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