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Democratization Politics
The word âdemocracyâ mostly came to mean ârepresentative democracyâ where we vote once every 3 years. But really, democracy is a spectrum based on the level of collective intelligence present in the system of governance.
Improving it would mean:
- Higher transparency, volume & efficiency of information processing
- Increased accountability & verifiability
- Increased participation of the public in opinion & policy formation
State of the Art
In the civil & the professional spheres, we see a crazy growth of facilitation techniques: Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, Theory U, Sociocracy etc.
Along with these, we see more & more digital technologies - new voting systems, deliberation apps, feedback systems etc.
Overall, shitloads of tools & techniques to improve quality, efficiency, transparency & fairness of governance.
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Community Politics
âToday we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationshipsâthe ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together, in the same world, at peaceâ.â Franklin D. Roosevelt
In postindustrial societies with annual per capita GDP above $25k, the reasons for suffering are no longer material - theyâre behaviors, psychologies & social relations that arenât functioning properly.
Weâd start worrying about questions like:
- Whats the distribution of social capital & status?
- Interpersonal trust, kindness & willingness to help strangers?
- Do people have the resources for conflict resolution?
- How many perceived enemies do people have?
- How good are we at perspective-taking?
- How lonely are people?
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