Making a virtue of weak leadership
12:54pm
Thursday, 8th January 2004
Now here's an interesting experiment in e-democracy. A group of dot.com refugees has founded Your Party, a new political party which embraces exactly the features which are normally used to criticise traditional parties: no leadership, no policies, and no ideology...
The idea seems to be to take the principle behind internet pollsters YouGov one step further: their entire agenda will be formed from scratch by visitors to their website. It's an appealingly simple model of mass-participation democracy, though whether they'll be able to generate enough interest and enthusiasm to make it all worth while - and whether this would in any way be a viable way to make decisions on any but the longest timescales - remains to be seen.
You can read more on the BBC News Online website.
Now here's an interesting experiment in e-democracy. A group of dot.com refugees has founded Your Party, a new political party which embraces exactly the features which are normally used to criticise traditional parties: no leadership, no policies, and no ideology...
The idea seems to be to take the principle behind internet pollsters YouGov one step further: their entire agenda will be formed from scratch by visitors to their website. It's an appealingly simple model of mass-participation democracy, though whether they'll be able to generate enough interest and enthusiasm to make it all worth while - and whether this would in any way be a viable way to make decisions on any but the longest timescales - remains to be seen.
You can read more on the BBC News Online website.
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