Preventing the Collapse of Democracy with the Interactive Voter Choice System
By Nancy Bordier and Joseph M. Firestone Overview The two of us met recently at an AmericaSpeaks event in Fairfax, VA, on June 26th. We decided independently to attend the event, but for the same...
View ArticleA Global View of the Interactive Voter Choice System
We Americans have a problem. We’re supposed to be a democracy responsive to the people. But polls show that policies favored by heavy majorities of Americans don’t get legislated by either or both...
View ArticleHow U.S. Voters Can Wrest Control of Elections from Special Interests:...
Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy in 2009 with the support of the special-interest backed Tea Party movement, and large campaign contributions from the banking and...
View ArticleA System-Changing Solution for the OWS Movement?
By Nancy Bordier and Joseph M. Firestone As the Occupy Wall Street movement grows, OWS members are weighing their options for obtaining redress of their grievances. Holding and expanding the ground...
View ArticleA Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Two, Meta-layer...
By Joseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders Requirements for an e-participation platform in human political CASs We won’t be able to stop the movement toward oligarchy unless we can create a new...
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A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Three, the IVCS
By Joseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders This is the concluding post in a three-part series. The first post highlighted the problem of lack of representativeness in modern societies, characterized human...
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