This post on Best Of A Great Lot is a part of a series headed towards being a book. This page tracks the series.
The mission of this series is a design for a new and more effective system of societal governance. Something that we can see as a major break with and improvement upon the complex system that we refer to as liberal or constitutional democracy. I wrote a little more about it in my first post.
To begin, I aim to define some terms, describe some of the core problems I hope to improve upon, discuss some options I've seen proposed and generally frame the project. I hope to put together a coherent foundation that I can then build upon. Once that foundation is laid, I will walk through the basic structure of a new system and then dive into more details of each of the pieces. Toward the end I aim to break the proposal into incremental steps that can be tested and validated and then implemented separately.
Framing the Project
1-1 - Why Design A New System?
1-2 - Defining "Effective" (and Effective Does Not Mean Perfect)
1-3 - Governance and Legitimacy (part 1)
1-4 - Self vs Effective
1-5 - What is Self-Governance?
1-6 - Self-Governance by Rejection
1-7 - What does governance entail? Infrastructure.
1-8 - Flooded With Rules From All Directions
Core Problems To Solve
2-5 - Dilution of Representation
2-6 - Bundled Governance
2-7 - Justifiable Governance
2-8 - Track Records
On Technocracy
3-1 - The Case of the Like Button That Ate Society
3-2 - A Knotwork of Bureaucracies
3-3 - Objectivity and its Discontents
3-4 - Nationalization, Privatization, Regulation
Review of Select Ideas
4-1 - Intro
4-2 - Sortition
4-3 - Eligibility Requirements
4-4 - Liquid Democracy
4-5 - Elect More Representatives
C.f. https://demodexio.substack.com/
Also https://www.reddit.com/r/archipelago/