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	direct democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Direct democracy was first experimented with in the ancient Athenian democracy of ancient Greece, which was governed for two centuries by a council of randomly selected representatives and a general assembly of all citizens.
		Modern mass-suffrage democracies generally rely on representatives elected by citizens (that is, representative democracy).
		Interestingly, direct democracy models in practice usually focus on the adversarial process of advocating and choosing one of usually two broad or sweeping options defined for the citizens by experts.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Direct_democracy.html (845 words)

	Liquid democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liquid democracy is a form of direct democracy with proxy representation allowed.
		In a direct democracy, if there is a meeting or vote taken, every member has the right to attend or vote.
		Thus, in delegable proxy democracy, if A names B, who names C,..., and A and B do not attend or vote, the vote of C is augmented by the votes of A and B.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liquid_democracy (257 words)

	E-democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		E- democracy (the short form of " electronic democracy") is the utilization of electronic communications technologies, such as the Internet, in enhancing democratic processes within a democratic republic or representative democracy.
		World Movement for Democracy Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
		Direct Access Democracy Proposes a form of direct democracy in which voting is done in small groups, the results of which are binding upon elected representatives.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-E-democracy.html (596 words)

	Democracy at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word democracy originates from the Greek "demos" meaning "the people" and "kratein" meaning "to rule" or "the people to rule" which meant literally: "Rule by the People." The term is also sometimes used as a measurement of how much influence a people has over their government, as in how much democracy exists.
		One important issue in a democracy is the limitations on rights to candidate and on suffrage or franchise - that is the decision as to who ought to be entitled to vote.
		Proponents of democracy argue that just as there is a special constitutional process for constitutional changes, there could be a distinction between legislation which would be handled through direct democracy and the modification of constitutional rights which would have a more deliberative procedure there attached, and thereby less vulnerable to the tyranny of the majority.
	wiki.tatet.com /Democracy.html (2861 words)

	Encyclopedia: Representative democracy
		Representative democracy comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein voters choose (in free, secret, multi-party elections) representatives to act in their interests, but not as their proxiesâ”i.e., not necessarily according to their voters' wishes, but with enough authority to exercise initiative in the face of changing circumstances.
		Representative democracy came into particular general favour in post-industrial revolution nation states where large numbers of subjects or (more recently) citizens evinced interest in politics, but where technology and population figures remained unsuited to direct democracy.
		Indeed, many (perhaps most) absolute monarchies were overthrown by the advocates of representative democracy, either in a revolution or through a gradual process of reform that saw the monarch lose most of his/her powers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Representative-democracy (2021 words)

	Participatory democracy - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy.
		Bioregional democracy often is, but that is not necessary to its definition.
		Grassroots democracy is an alternative term that has actually been used to imply almost any combination of the above.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/pa/participatory_democracy.html (91 words)

	Liquid Truth: Advice from the Spinmeisters - SourceWatch
		What is more important than their actual effectiveness is the seemingly authoritative justification that they provide for the PR worldview--a belief that people are fundamentally irrational and that therefore a class of behind-the-scenes manipulators is necessary to shape opinion for the public's own good.
		But this belief is at odds not only with the ideals of democracy but also with the fundamental and necessary ideological underpinnings of the scientific method itself.
		Before scientists can reach any conclusions whatsoever about the elements in the periodic table or the space-time continuum, they have to first believe that "the truth is out there" and that their investigations will take them closer to it.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Liquid_Truth:_Advice_from_the_Spinmeisters (2158 words)

	Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Liquid Lounge is the official AM radio program of the Underwater Miami Music Festival, set for May 2005.
		Liquid Lounge evolved from a series of radio programs that began March 15th, 2003 on WAXY AM790 in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, the 11th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
		Liquid Lounge was the name I chose for a support program for the DEMA Convention.
	www.cruiseanddive.com /radio.html (1019 words)

	tods - transparent online democracy system - nicos project homepages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		the general idea is to combine the advantages of direct and representative democracy.
		this democracy concept can be applied for decision finding inside informal groups or organizations, but also for the real world political process on communal or even national level.
		after working on this idea about half a year, we discovered that there's a similar concept present on the web, which is called liquid democracy.
	omnibus.uni-freiburg.de /~dietricn/tods.shtml (239 words)

	[OT] Political Process -- a new direction.
		One of the obvious applications of the kind of direct/proxy democracy represented by my initiative and the Swedish one, is for user groups.
		A user group that was organized according to these concepts would, in fact, represent the users, it would be not only a way for users to express what they want, coherently and without bias from the hyperactive special interests who often dominate such organizations, without requiring more effort than people were willing to invest.
		I may not have put all this in the charter, but a proxy is charged with the task of being a communication link between the organization and all the members who have entrusted him or her.
	www.mail-archive.com /ot@techservinc.com/msg00059.html (1164 words)

	Search Results for democracy)<br - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Athenian democracy spread throughout Greece during the reign of Pericles.
		Describes its objectives and initiatives in the developing world for improving and consolidating democracy, and the links to resources on national interest.
		Themes covered include environment, democracy, civic identity, human rights, and the concept of community, nation, and citizenship.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=democracy) (625 words)

	Liquid Democracy for Decision-making
		If members choose to proxy their votes on decisions for which they are not experts, the effect is that the votes by members with expert knowledge with carry a heavier weight, which would lead to more-informed decisions.
		The proxies would certainly be more fickle than representative positions in modern democracies, but I still don't see anything to prevent cartel voting, considering that direct democracy is simply too burdensome for most people.
		My own observations from communal living and worker-coops is that "liquid" decision making is just a proxy, or microcosm, of the "system", only a lot more jibber-jabber, to quote Mr.
	www.markcarey.com /blogcoop/liquid-democracy-for-decisionmaking.html (1582 words)

	ipedia.com: Liquid Democracy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Liquid democracy is an implementation of direct democracy which incorporates elements of a representative democracy.
		Every person can vote directly on measures, but they can also, if they wish, transfer their voting right to a proxy who may make the decisions for them with regards to specific issues or categories of issues.
		It can also be considered a sort of participatory democracy.
	www.ipedia.com /liquid_democracy.html (287 words)

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		The decentralised political system enables that decisions that affect the locals, besides those with global environmental impact, will be discussed locally.
		liquid democracy), and the judiciary and policing branches will be created through a mixture of election, liquid democracies, and lottery.
		The benefit of the system is that, tied in with having your basic needs provided for you, this means that the average individual now has a lot more time to live life rather than simply work to live and live to work.
	infomesh.net /200X/esp-notes (740 words)

	All Facts and Opinions: Blogging, Cooperatively (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blog Coops are for-profit ventures that embrace emergent democracy as a means for governance and decision-making.
		The distribution of profits is closely tied to the reputation system, such that members are compensated in proportion to their contributions.
		Imagine: Creative people join forces in a liquid democracy in which hard work, trustworthiness, tangible contributions, and stellar reputations are the factors that determine success -- with no golden parachutes in sight.
	gratefuldread.net /archives/cat/000598.html (588 words)

	Ming the Mechanic
		A post from Joi Ito's wiki-wiki emergent democracy page, which is itself very interesting.
		One way to look at LiquidDemocracy is as representative democracy, but much more fine-grained; you don't have to elect just one guy to represent you on every issue, you can have different specialists for different issues.
		Second, there is no GerryMandering (at least, not in the process of choosing representatives); your single vote empowers your chosen representative a little bit; you don't have to get more than 50% of the people in your area to vote for the same guy before there is any effect.
	ming.tv /flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_day/_w2003-05-15 (442 words)

	New Partisan - Articles - Liquid Freedom
		This weapon could, at a stroke, put flesh on the bones of formal democracy, change the dynamic of the insurgency, begin to win the confidence of the Iraqi people and create a powerful, growing force for stability, national unity and economic development.
		The goal would be to “personalize” oil revenues streams, empower women, give democracy a material base — and give all Iraqis a stake in the survival and stability of their new democracy.
		Reform in the distribution of oil revenue is as critical to “winning the peace” in Iraq as land reform was to fostering democracy in post-war Japan.
	www.newpartisan.com /home/liquid-freedom.html (3357 words)

	USAfricaonline.com \| Chido \|Oil and Gas Money \| Nigeria
		All those, and more, have combined with wonderful announcements of billion dollar contracts and deals with the multinational corporations and their Nigerian collectors and agents to raise and dash, every passing year, the tortured hopes of the same poor, dispirited folks on whose lands the oil and gas sit.
		The report notes that many of the dead were said to have been trapped in a ditch where a pool of gasoline had collected.
		A wide patch of land the size of a soccer field was charred as the fire trailed the flow of the volatile liquid.
	www.usafricaonline.com /chido.petrogas.html (2502 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Liquid Modernity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds by Zygmunt Bauman
		As today and our own situation, i think we are faced with a novel situation in history, because today we have to be liberated from a relatively well functioning, rich, powerful society.
		The book is analysis in several sections of the effect of society in Bauman's terms becoming liquid.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0745624103?v=glance (1074 words)

	BEYOND POLITICS
		Beyond Politics was founded with a vision of a key to solving many of the social and political problems which plague our world.
		A Free Association is simply a direct democracy of peers minus the coercive aspects that almost always accompany the transition of an informal association into a formal one, especially when the association becomes large.
		Delegable Proxy is a technology for maintaining direct democracy when the group size becomes large; while it may not seem necessary in small associations, even very small associations often suffer from problems that Delegable Proxy could ameliorate.
	www.beyondpolitics.org (628 words)

	Newtopia Magazine \| "Greenism - the ideology of being Green", by Bryan W. Brickner, PhD // September/October ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Instead of Direct Democracy, where every citizen can vote on each issue, the US has a system of representation.
		Direct democracy and representative democracy are not generally considered participatory.
		Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals.
	www.newtopiamagazine.net /content/issue18/features/greenism.php (2256 words)

	Internet democracy
		Internet democracy is a derivative term for e-democracy / electronic democracy, especially related to projects and concepts centered on using the Internet (and not other electronic communications technologies like short message services or teletext) for deliberative and participatory aims.
		Concrete implementations of internet democracy projects include electronic town hall meetings or citizen consultations, the use of discussion boards on party or candidate websites and the virtualization of traditional political institutions or mechanisms like party conventions, protest marches or petitions.
		Internet democracy is also used in reference to:
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/in/internet_democracy.html (234 words)

	Re: [OT] Political Process -- a new direction.
		And in a representative democracy, in the deliberative bodies (city council, state houses, federal houses), someone else is casting his or her vote.
		And these proxies would be subject to much more scrutiny by those they represent; once again, if the proxies vote, say, to support some cause and they do not manage to convince their direct-communicating members of their decision, the decision will be of little effect.
		There are liquid democracy proposals that involve secret voting; I've avoided that because I think the best protection against corruption is an open process....
	www.mail-archive.com /ot@techservinc.com/msg00068.html (4293 words)

	Liquid-Blue.com
		The song touches on war related subjects such as "collateral damage" and the impact of politics and the media on our decision to engage in conflict.
		Check out all positive, activist music of Liquid Blue at www.liquid-blue.com.
		A non-political, educational campaign against war and racism and in support of grassroots democracy, including teach-ins, conferences, local and regional events.
	www.liquid-blue.com /music/themes/12AnythingElseButTheme.htm (585 words)

	Direct Democracy - tribe.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is _not_ about simple direct democracy, but about making democracy in a republican context more direct.
		As much as possible, members of this tribe should also strive to take a non-partisan approach to the issues surrounding direct democracy.
		Note: this isn't a forum for debating whether or not "direct democracy" is a good thing.
	directdemocracy.tribe.net (178 words)

	The Blog Cooperative - BlogCoop.com
		BlogCoops are for-profit ventures that embrace emergent democracy as a means for governance and decision-making.
		As opposed to representative forms of democracy, in which members elect a 'representative' to vote on their behalf, members can vote directly on all of the issues (direct democracy).
		One approach, that may be able to achieve this, is a related form of emergent democracy: Liquid Democracy.
	www.markcarey.com /blogcoop/paper.html (3598 words)

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