Interesting idea, and I think there is a possibility that the responsibility will make the “normal people” make better choices or learn more even though they do not know policy, etc in the first place.
A few questions:
Do you think there is a situation where selected random people do not want to be in office/leadership and want to pursue their own passion/career and thus due to this reason may do a bad job? Is this mandatory?
What are some nuances about population and diversity? (I am not sure yet)
>Do you think there is a situation where selected random people do not want to be in office/leadership and want to pursue their own passion/career and thus due to this reason may do a bad job? Is this mandatory?
I think a robust way to design the assembly (or multiple assemblies like with Bouricius’s model) is to have many different people serving different term lengths. Some people may serve a term of only a couple days or weeks. Others might serve for years.
For short-term service, I would make that mandatory. Everyone is required to come.
For long term service, maybe those should be voluntary.
As far as incentives go, there’s a range of enforcement options for “mandatory” service. Perhaps you can just pay a big fine, as a percentage of your income, as an alternative to service. There probably ought to be mechanisms to defer service so you can time things a bit better with your life circumstances.
The typical Citizens’ Assembly will also offer benefits such as child care, parental care.
A high paying salary will encourage the lower and middle class to participate.
I have trouble coming up with ways to help small business owners to participate though. Could a small business owner drop their work for an entire year, even if it was well paid—especially if the small business is so small there are no managers to cover their role? Perhaps there could be alternatives for them, such as part time work coupled with work-from-home.
>What are some nuances about population and diversity? (I am not sure yet)
I have yet to hear about a case where Deliberative decision making techniques were tried and failed due to excessive diversity or cultural factors. I’m not an expert on the latest and greatest research here so I may be wrong. I do know that deliberation experiments have been performed all around the world, including East Asia, Africa, and India.
An example deliberative poll was performed in Uganda, paper linked here:
Thanks! I think the term duration is interesting and creative.
Do you think for the short-term ones there might be pre-studies they need to do for the exact topics they need to learn on? Or maybe could design the short-term ones for topics that can be learnt quickly and solved quickly? I am a little worried about the consistency in policy as well (for example even with work, when a person on a project take vacation, and someone need to cover for them, there are a lot of onboarding docs, and prior knowledge to transfer), but could not find a good way just yet. I will think more about these.
Interesting idea, and I think there is a possibility that the responsibility will make the “normal people” make better choices or learn more even though they do not know policy, etc in the first place.
A few questions:
Do you think there is a situation where selected random people do not want to be in office/leadership and want to pursue their own passion/career and thus due to this reason may do a bad job? Is this mandatory?
What are some nuances about population and diversity? (I am not sure yet)
>Do you think there is a situation where selected random people do not want to be in office/leadership and want to pursue their own passion/career and thus due to this reason may do a bad job? Is this mandatory?
I think a robust way to design the assembly (or multiple assemblies like with Bouricius’s model) is to have many different people serving different term lengths. Some people may serve a term of only a couple days or weeks. Others might serve for years.
For short-term service, I would make that mandatory. Everyone is required to come.
For long term service, maybe those should be voluntary.
As far as incentives go, there’s a range of enforcement options for “mandatory” service. Perhaps you can just pay a big fine, as a percentage of your income, as an alternative to service. There probably ought to be mechanisms to defer service so you can time things a bit better with your life circumstances.
The typical Citizens’ Assembly will also offer benefits such as child care, parental care.
A high paying salary will encourage the lower and middle class to participate.
I have trouble coming up with ways to help small business owners to participate though. Could a small business owner drop their work for an entire year, even if it was well paid—especially if the small business is so small there are no managers to cover their role? Perhaps there could be alternatives for them, such as part time work coupled with work-from-home.
>What are some nuances about population and diversity? (I am not sure yet)
I have yet to hear about a case where Deliberative decision making techniques were tried and failed due to excessive diversity or cultural factors. I’m not an expert on the latest and greatest research here so I may be wrong. I do know that deliberation experiments have been performed all around the world, including East Asia, Africa, and India.
An example deliberative poll was performed in Uganda, paper linked here:
https://direct.mit.edu/daed/article/146/3/140/27163/Applying-Deliberative-Democracy-in-Africa-Uganda-s
I haven’t fully read this yet. Note that James Fishkin is the guy that performs and advocates for these “deliberative polls”.
Thanks! I think the term duration is interesting and creative.
Do you think for the short-term ones there might be pre-studies they need to do for the exact topics they need to learn on? Or maybe could design the short-term ones for topics that can be learnt quickly and solved quickly? I am a little worried about the consistency in policy as well (for example even with work, when a person on a project take vacation, and someone need to cover for them, there are a lot of onboarding docs, and prior knowledge to transfer), but could not find a good way just yet. I will think more about these.