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	Demarchy: A Democratic Alternative to Electoral Politics, by Brian Martin
		Australian philosopher John Burnheim has invented the term "demarchy" to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
		Burnheim decided that the word democracy is so corrupted in meaning that it was better to introduce a different word for his proposed alternative.
		Burnheim envisages what he calls "second-order groups" whose sole task would be to adjudicate on procedures for the "first-order groups," which are the ones that actually deal with community issues.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/92kio.html (2214 words)

	John Burnheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Burnheim, Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
		(1985) John Burnheim invented the term " demarchy " to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
		Burnheim used to be a Roman Catholic priest, and presided over St John's, the Catholic college attached to the University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Burnheim (115 words)

	Demarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Demarchy is a term coined by Australian philosopher John Burnheim to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
		Demarchy attempts to overcome some of the functional problems with conventional representative democracies, which in practice have often been subject to manipulation by special interests and a divide between professional policymakers (politicians and lobbyists) vs. a largely passive, uninvolved and often uninformed electorate.
		Burnheim's model of Demarchy involves the partial or complete dissolution of government departments and bureaucracies which are replaced by citizen's juries.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Demarchy (661 words)

	Demarchy: The Ideal Democracy
		Lord John Dalberg-Acton, an English historian, wrote in 1881 that “the danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.
		Burnheim, John. “Democracy, Nation States, and the World System.” New Forms of Democracy. Eds.
		Dalberg-Acton, John. Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone. April 24, 1881. 1913.
	kevin.alteu.com /writings/demarchy.html (220 words)

	VOTE NOBODY
		John Jordan has just returned from Chiapas where he has been studying the decision making processes used by the Zapatistas, a network of indigineous communities fighting, with some considerable success, for recognition in Southern Mexico.
		Burnheim argues such a decentralised state would be impossible to invade, and would be virtually no threat to its neighbours.
		Burnheim does point out that demarchy need not appear overnight and could be introduced in a piecemeal way.
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		John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
		John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
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	Demarchy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Demarchy is a term coined by Australian philosopher (Click link for more info and facts about John Burnheim) John Burnheim to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
		Demarchy attempts to overcome some of the functional problems with conventional representative (Click link for more info and facts about democracies) democracies, which in practice have often been subject to manipulation by special interests and a divide between professional policymakers (politicians and lobbyists) vs. a largely passive, uninvolved and often uninformed electorate.
		In the former case some form of (The belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth) meritocracy would apply.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/De/Demarchy.htm (1530 words)

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		John O'Sullivan (November 1813 -24 February 1895) was a American newspaper journalist who is thought to have coined the term "manifest destiny" to encourage US expansionism.
		John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (4 June 1751-13 January 1838), Lord High Chancellor of England, was born at Newcastle.
		John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863), Lord Chancellor of England, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1772.
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		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "John".
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		With their genrehopping, fence-busting debut album, Horse Of A Different Color, the duo brings the most exciting new scene in Nashville to the rest of America - where people who listen to country music don't just listen to country music, where folks wear a John Deere hat and an Eminem T-shirt.
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	Is Democracy Possible?
		In this provocative book, John Burnheim argues that there is an alternative to our current political and economic structure.
		In a bold and original discussion of how and why the present system fails and what we might do to bring about genuine democracy, Burnheim offers the outline of a new kind of society, forcing us to reexamine our assumptions about the limits and possibilities of modern political systems.
		John Burnheim is Associate Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/1987.html (178 words)

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		John Kiely, one of the Lib Dem councillors for the Bristol’s Easton ward polled 27 per cent of the 33 per cent turnout (even with everyone having two votes).
		Burnheim argues such a decentralised state would be impossible to invade (ie no central bureaucracy to conquer would mean each individual body and community would have to be separately subdued - a tricky task, as the Romans discovered during multiple failed attempts to overcome the Welsh Celts and the Scots Picts).
		Burnheim is up front that his theories need to be expanded, questioned and tested.
	www.schnews.org.uk /sotw/democracy.htm (4742 words)

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		'''John Burnheim''', Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Sydney.
		In his book ''Is Democracy Possible?'' (1985) John Burnheim invented the term " Sydney " to describe a political system without the Sydney or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
		Burnheim used to be a Sydney Sydney, and presided over St John's, the Catholic college attached to the University.
	www.mauspfeil.net /John_Burnheim.html (160 words)

	Definition of John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		, John Lackland -- youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
		John Campbell George Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
		John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
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	Encyclopedia: Demarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		These groups, sometimes termed "policy juries," "citizens' juries," or "consensus conferences," would deliberate and make decisions about public policies in much the same way that juries reach verdicts on criminal cases.
		Meritocracy is a system of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or social position.
		Demarchy as a concept does not necessitate such a radical step as integral to its purpose.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Demarchy (1891 words)

	Demarchy, fifth in the ten-part series on Global Constructs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Burnheim believes that democracy is corrupt in meaning and believes a different word better represents his alternative.
		The number of groups could be determined to give a "desirable" level of participation (e.g., a community of 10,000 people had 200 groups each with 10 members serving strict two-year terms-the average person would then expect to serve 2 out of every 20 years).
		Burnheim's point insists that random selection would be made from volunteers (e.g., people who volunteered for the education group, for example, would be those who know a lot about issues and feel passionately about them.
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	RA Forum > CLARK, John. Municipal Dreams : A Social Ecological Critique of Bookchin’s Politics (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One democratic procedure that could perform judicial functions would be popular juries (as proposed by Godwin two centuries ago) or citizens’ committees (as recently suggested by Burnheim) [ 31 ] that could oversee administrative decision-making.
		Moreover, Bookchin’s comments show ignorance of the nature of the proposals of Godwin and Burnheim that are cited, and unwillingness to investigate them before beginning his attack.
		Neither proposes a system of "representation." One of the appealing aspects of the jury or committee proposals is that since membership on juries or committees is through random selection (not election of "representatives"), all citizens have an equal opportunity to exercise decision-making power.
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	WDN \| All Change No.5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And, as John Burnheim, creator of Demarchy, says, “It is, I think, fairly obvious that many of those who are elected to high office [] are undistinguished in most relevant respects.
		And by localising administrative units, decision makers are more directly affected by their own decisions (Burnheim believes this is a key part of any effective decision-making process): they are therefore highly motivated to make the right choice for the people they serve.
		Burnheim does not tell us how we might transform our current system into a Demarchy, and does not believe that all decision-making bodies should necessarily be chosen by lot; but the evidence so far shows that, in the right context, random selection can work.
	www.wwdemocracy.nildram.co.uk /all_change/all_change_05.htm (10085 words)

	Social Anarchism/The Social Anarchism Index 1980-1998
		The Alternative to Electorial Politics by John Burnheim.
		John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess, Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings.
		Repsonse to John Moore's article, "Prophets of the New Worlds: Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin, and Fredy Perlman," in same issue.
	library.nothingness.org /articles/SA/en/display/354 (3053 words)

	Politicians' Roles in the Information Society
		Burnheim's solution known as demarchy is based on the system of representation of interests and the government by special purpose committees.
		I am not sure whether such a system would provide a solution or not, but Burnheim at least has introduced the problem.
		In brief, entirely new forms of democracy must be invented in order to meet with the conditions of radicalized modernity.
	www.uta.fi /~kuaran/epri.html (1200 words)

	P4C and Democracy
		The main thrust of Burgh's paper is to defend a variation of a proposal by John Burnheim for society's governance, one which he calls 'demarchy' (Burnheim, 1985) to distinguish it from the connotations of "voting for candidates in elections" that 'democracy' has.
		Briefly put, Burnheim's proposal divides governance decisions into types and then has those decision types decided by those affected by the decisions and to the degree that they are affected.
		Such deciding power is not direct though; such stakeholders opt to be available for "decision committee" duty and the committees members are selected for their terms (staggered for continuity) by lot.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Column/1122/DEMOCRED.htm (4312 words)

	~ OD Practitioner Online - Vol. 30 / No. 4 (1998) ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When I first read John's piece, that opening sentence of his, “This article is an attempt to answer a question...” caught my attention, but it didn't raise my suspicions, didn't cause me to mutter under my breath, “He's got to be kidding.”
		The mixture of delight and doubt with which I now regard John's article only came after I'd “soaked” in it and decided that his piece, and the ideas and suggestions it offers, were very special.
		Fortunately, their response was positive and, as a consequence, John Nirenberg and I are organizing a "virtual" group of people interested in expanding the crucial ideas suggested in Hammurabi's Curse.
	www.odnetwork.org /odponline/vol30n1/revolutionaryod.html (1368 words)

	Demarchy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		These groups, sometimes termed "policy juries", "citizens' juries", or "Consensus Conferences", would deliberate and make decisions about public policies in much the same way that juryjuries reach verdicts on criminal cases.
		Demarchy attempts to overcome some of the functional problems with conventional representative democracydemocracies, which in practice have often been subject to manipulation by special interests and a divide between professional policymakers (politicians and lobbyists) vs. a largely passive, uninvolved and often uninformed electorate.
		Related Topics: John Burnheim, Consensus Conference, Sortition, Athenian democracy, Meritocracy,
	www.topicguide.com /Demarchy.html (647 words)

	WDN \| Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Granta, London, 1998.
		John R. Macarthur, Selling Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington and the Subversion of American Democracy, Hill and Wang, NY, 2000.
		John Ralston-Saul, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, Penguin, Toronto, 1992.
	www.wwdemocracy.nildram.co.uk /reading.htm (1237 words)

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