On Thinking About Extreme Democracy

[danieldwilliam]

I'm thinking about participatory democracy and wondering if riots counts.

Comments

[andrewducker]

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.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that's a helpful comment.

[andrewducker]

I thought you might like this:
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/is_it_time_to_stage_a_mutiny.html

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Oh I do like that.

That's useful advice in a bundle.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

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.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

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.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Which I tend to agree with.