Naah - rioting is a bypassing of democracy, because while the will of _some_ people is expressed, there's no equality in reaching a decision.
Rioting, IMHO, occurs when there is a significant democratic deficit, or where people are unhappy, and believe (rightly or wrongly) that democracy will not fix this.
As one of the commentators says, I think the most likely response to the kind of poor leadership that leads to mutinies in static organisations is a mass walk out.
Which is fine if you have somewhere else to go or have valuable transferable skills to take to the market.
In my head rioting is a failure of democracy, or an assertion of anarchy. If the rioters were getting an outcome they liked from participatory democracy, they wouldn't be rioting.
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Date: 2013-04-10 02:14 pm (UTC)Rioting, IMHO, occurs when there is a significant democratic deficit, or where people are unhappy, and believe (rightly or wrongly) that democracy will not fix this.
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Date: 2013-04-10 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 03:16 pm (UTC)http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/is_it_time_to_stage_a_mutiny.html
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Date: 2013-04-10 05:12 pm (UTC)That's useful advice in a bundle.
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Date: 2013-04-10 05:23 pm (UTC)Which is fine if you have somewhere else to go or have valuable transferable skills to take to the market.
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Date: 2013-04-11 05:34 am (UTC)If the rioters were getting an outcome they liked from participatory democracy, they wouldn't be rioting.
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Date: 2013-04-11 09:10 am (UTC)