Redesign Democracy

Author : Hans Gersbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319534053

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Redesigning Democracy by Hans Gersbach Pdf

Could democracy do better? This book presents a vision on optimal democracies and a set of new rules to help achieve them. The monograph follows on the author’s successful book “Designing Democracy” from 2005 and further develops its ideas. While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely provoke great enthusiasm. Democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient outcomes and fair distributions of wealth. Moreover, many citizens take the democratic system for granted, simply because they have yet to experience an alternative. This book argues that the potential offered by democracies has not yet been exhausted, and that optimal democracies are both the Utopia for societies and the aim that scientists should commit themselves to making a reality. Furthermore, the book suggests a number of insightful rules to improve the functioning of democracies. “We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we have done it.” This famous quip by Jean-Claude Juncker perfectly encapsulates the challenge this book takes on: how to redesign our democratic institutions to overcome political short-termism and make our democracies more efficient. Several radical but highly relevant proposals are explored, ranging from long-term incentive contracts for politicians, prediction markets over the outcomes of the next election that could be useful for incentive purposes, minority voting, initiative group constitutions, and so on. All these highly innovative proposals are rigorously grounded in standard economic analysis. I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned about the state of our democracies and looking for constructive reforms. Patrick Bolton, Columbia University, USA In a time of reeling democracies, it is urgent to explore how to improve on the electoral system for the benefit of society. Hans Gersbach has developed a most innovative and thought-provoking research agenda at the intersection of political theory, social choice and mechanism design. He uncovers the potentially positive effects of political contracts between candidates and society, of new rules for agenda setting and of mechanisms compensating the minorities. Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University, USA

Author : Dirk Knemeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942290004

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Redesign Democracy by Dirk Knemeyer Pdf

Democracy in the 21st century United States looks remarkably similar to the version first initiated by the "founding fathers" way back in 1789. This, despite the world having changed so radically in the subsequent 225 years that the world we live in would seem unrecognizable, even magical, to those who envisioned the government.At the same time the U.S. Congress has historically low approval rates amidst an environment of toxicity and partisanship. The national debt is out of control. Larger strategic issues such as global warming seem intractable. The current system is simply ineffective.Social futurist Dirk Knemeyer believes there is a better way. By reimagining the composition of the U.S. Congress, and leveraging technology to shift a more direct democratic system to our citizenry, he offers an audacious new path forward, one that builds on the strong philosophical underpinnings of democracy but updated for the digital age.

Author : Landon Mascareñaz
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682538142

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The Open System by Landon Mascareñaz Pdf

A call to action for school and community leaders to reframe educational institutions as open systems that are adaptable and responsive to the needs of students, families, and communities. Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing top-down, closed systems within education and other public institutions, they have also created prime opportunities to rethink and redesign those systems in ways that encourage civic participation and invigorate local democracy. In The Open System, Mascareñaz and Tran argue for a critical revitalization of public education centered in openness, an organization design concept in which an entity receives, considers, and acts on input from the community it serves. As they demonstrate, open education policy improves information flow, increasing opportunity, bolstering public trust, and making room for cocreation and coproduction driven by community partnerships and family engagement. Based on their groundbreaking work with educational coalitions such as the Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Education and Colorado’s Homegrown Talent Initiative, Mascareñaz and Tran introduce six key liberatory moves that can bring about open system transformation. They highlight real-life examples of the types of incremental, specific, and discrete projects that leaders can use to create openness in educational systems at the school, district, and state levels, providing a blueprint for changemaking.

Author : Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674244627

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Reconstructing Democracy by Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor Pdf

"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." --Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.

Author : Josh A. Lerner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262551144

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Making Democracy Fun by Josh A. Lerner Pdf

Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable—even fun. Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America. He offers rich stories of game techniques in action, in children's councils, social service programs, and participatory budgeting and planning. With these real-world examples in mind, Lerner describes five kinds of games and twenty-six game mechanics that are especially relevant for democracy. He finds that when governments and organizations use games and design their programs to be more like games, public participation becomes more attractive, effective, and transparent. Game design can make democracy fun—and make it work.

Author : David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918473

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Design as Democracy by David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson Pdf

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.

Author : Sam Pitroda
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789357088541

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The Idea of Democracy by Sam Pitroda Pdf

Today global democracy is at a crossroads because of the rise in polarized politics, authoritarian regimes and the use of social media to manipulate and amplify lies, hate and misinformation. While electoral democracy continues to be the most prevalent form of government, a series of indicators measuring political and civic freedom reveal that the institution of democracy is in deep distress. With the liberal foundations of democracy shakier than ever before, confidence in institutions has plummeted. This book looks at this paradox of so-called democratic success coupled with its liberal decline. It provides a detailed analysis of the essence of democracy, its workings, the kind of values it needs to encapsulate, forces and safeguards which work in liberal democracy’s favour and how they can be preserved. This book is meant to stimulate conversation, particularly among the youth on what the idea of democracy means to them and the role that they can play in helping democracy survive—and thrive—in the coming era.

Author : Philip M. Turner,Ronald S. Carriveau
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : 1433106817

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Next Generation Course Redesign by Philip M. Turner,Ronald S. Carriveau Pdf

"There is widespread recognition that large enrollment introductory classes are a significant problem. Lack of engagement, incongruous learning styles and teaching methods, and high failure/dropout rates are some of the symptonms. ... The University of North Texas has developed and promulgated a process for resdesigning these classes that brings to bear the creativity of the faculty, resulting in higher-level student learning without increasing instructional costs. This groundbreaking book provides the reader with a theoretical foundation for course redesign that employs assessment-driven experiential learning, and tools and examples to bring all or part of the process to their campus."--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:1035718196

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Rebooting America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maziar Rezai,Michael Erlhoff
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783035622836

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Design & Democracy by Maziar Rezai,Michael Erlhoff Pdf

Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail. Authors from various countries present previously unknown and innovative examples of democratic activities conducted through design. This publication is therefore aimed not only at design professionals but also at the general public of all countries.

Author : Joep F. Bolweg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461343646

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Job design and industrial democracy by Joep F. Bolweg Pdf

The organization of work is under critique in many industrialized countries. Bureaucracy, specialization, repetitive technology, and hierarchical control structures are criticized by politicians, trade unionists, and social scientists. They argue for improved quality of work, for work democratization, and for the humanization of work. This book evaluates Norwegian field ex periments in the area of job redesign which started already in 1964. Norway has therefore a lead in experience compared to most other countries, particu to the United States, where debates and subsequent experiments re larly volving around the quality of working life and the democratization of work started only in the early seventies. The Norwegian social scientists who left their academic bastions and started action research drew heavily upon the 'open socio-technical system' thinking as developed by the Tavistock Insti tute of Human Relations in London. This descriptive evaluation study ana lyzes the job redesign experiments from an industrial democracy perspective and places the experiments in their national political and labor relations contexts. Special emphasis is given to the actual and potential role trade unions can play in shopfloor job design projects. The industrial relations of the United States is generally used as reference point in this study. system The theory guiding the experiments regards work democratization through job redesign as a first step in a bottom-up process of organizational demo cratization.

Author : Carolyn M. Hendriks,Selen A. Ercan,John Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198843054

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Mending Democracy by Carolyn M. Hendriks,Selen A. Ercan,John Boswell Pdf

This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair.

Author : Gianna Englert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197635315

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Democracy Tamed by Gianna Englert Pdf

Liberal democracies are under constant threat in the twenty-first century, and there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive together. In Democracy Tamed, Gianna Englert argues that the dilemmas facing liberal democracy are not unique to our present moment, but have existed since the birth of liberal political thought in nineteenth-century France. Combining political theory and intellectual history, Democracy Tamed tells the story of how the earliest liberals deployed their "new democracy" to combat universal suffrage. But it also reveals how later liberals would appropriate their predecessors' antidemocratic arguments to safeguard liberal democracies as we have come to know them.

Author : Brandon Van Dyck
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822988533

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Democracy Against Parties by Brandon Van Dyck Pdf

Around the world, established parties are weakening, and new parties are failing to take root. In many cases, outsiders have risen and filled the void, posing a threat to democracy. Why do most new parties fail? Under what conditions do they survive and become long-term electoral fixtures? Brandon Van Dyck investigates these questions in the context of the contemporary Latin American left. He argues that stable parties are not an outgrowth of democracy. On the contrary, contemporary democracy impedes successful party building. To construct a durable party, elites must invest time and labor, and they must share power with activists. Because today’s elites have access to party substitutes like mass media, they can win votes without making such sacrifices in time, labor, and autonomy. Only under conditions of soft authoritarianism do office-seeking elites have a strong electoral incentive to invest in party building. Van Dyck illustrates this argument through a comparative analysis of four new left parties in Latin America: two that collapsed and two that survived.

Author : Michael Saward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198867227

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Democratic Design by Michael Saward Pdf

The book argues that we can remake and renew our ideas of democracy. It builds, defends, and illustrates the democratic design framework -- a new tool for politicians, reformers, and observers facing the great challenges of democracy around the world today.