Die Neue Zeit
10th February 2014, 21:39
http://books.google.ca/books?id=sVpKAgAAQBAJ&dq
http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/paul-lucardie-democratic-extremism/
Paul Lucardie:
In the book I distinguish four models of extreme and radical democracy. In an assembly democracy, decisions are taken by a popular assembly open to all citizens. In a council democracy, workers’ councils and neighbourhood councils take most decisions but are bound by mandates from the workers or the citizens. In a plebiscitary democracy most important decisions are submitted to the people in a referendum or result from a popular initiative. In a sortitionist democracy, all or most important decisions are taken by a random sample from the population. The following are excerpts from the concluding chapter where I evaluate the four models and sketch a utopian synthesis of all four.
Though I don't think it's utopian, the idea of sketching a synthesis, of developing a combined framework, is very realistic and "materialistic."
http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/paul-lucardie-democratic-extremism/
Paul Lucardie:
In the book I distinguish four models of extreme and radical democracy. In an assembly democracy, decisions are taken by a popular assembly open to all citizens. In a council democracy, workers’ councils and neighbourhood councils take most decisions but are bound by mandates from the workers or the citizens. In a plebiscitary democracy most important decisions are submitted to the people in a referendum or result from a popular initiative. In a sortitionist democracy, all or most important decisions are taken by a random sample from the population. The following are excerpts from the concluding chapter where I evaluate the four models and sketch a utopian synthesis of all four.
Though I don't think it's utopian, the idea of sketching a synthesis, of developing a combined framework, is very realistic and "materialistic."