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Category Archives: Democracy
The people’s voice: as rage and as healing
There’s a spectre haunting Europe … and the rest of the Western world. We have elaborate ‘diversity’ programs in good upper-middle-class places to prevent discrimination against all manner of minorities (and majorities like women). It’s a fine thing. But there’s a … Continue reading
Centrist strategic voting
This is my response to Peter Dempster’s proposals. I can see one important merit of them. Electoral politics is inherently polarising because electoral politics involves politicians beating other politicians to qualify to be politicians in the first place – by getting into … Continue reading
The Rise of China and dealing with American grief.
Like the world today, Europe in the 19th century witnessed major shifts in the balance of power, with new technologies changing how life was lived. Otto von Bismarck, a Prussian, saw opportunities in that chaos. He unified the warring German … Continue reading
PETER DEMPSTER: A strategic voting proposal in defence of centrism
Well folks, as you know, Club Troppo is the only website east of the whole damn Murray Darling system that has the reputation to attract the kind of high quality debate we’re in for tonight. So everyone, in your best ClupPony … Continue reading
PATRICIA EDGAR. The Circus that has been Government Policy on the ABC for Forty Years
Cross-posted from John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. The ABC has been an extraordinarily resilient organisation. It has withstood management and Board upheavals, survived remorseless budget cuts and harassment. But the current attacks on staff and on its role are as … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Democracy, Films and TV, History, Information, IT and Internet, Journalism, Media
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Democracy and inequality
I was a little crestfallen when, after my public lecture on democracy and sortition at King’s College London was filmed with a few to producing a video and the contractors informed us that the recording was hopelessly corrupted. So I was … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Economics and public policy, Education, Ethics, Sortition and citizens’ juries
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The unbearable thinness of modern politics
There’s been a great thinning out of our political culture. Once built up from the life-world with hundreds of thousands determining party policy feeding up from branches to politicians – though leaders obviously had quite a lot of power, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Democracy, Politics - national
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