- Democracy in the 22nd Century p.116-118
The curse of “batch indirect representative democracy” … Voting for one politician, one political party, unites all kinds of policies that call for completely different expertise and alignment of interests, from foreign security to the issue of married couples, from monetary policy to infertility treatment. It’s a curious practice when you think about it. Under this system, even for issues with a clear minority of parties, such as single parents and sexual minorities, the outcome is determined by the noisy voices of the majority of people who are not involved, do not have much knowledge, and do not care to think. … There have been proposals for “Liquid Democracy” (Liquid Democracy), “Dividual Democracy” (Divicracy), and “second round of voting” (Quadratic Voting)” and “second round of voting (Quadratic Voting)“.
The current indirect democracy problem is named and explained in a simple way.
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