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Government has become more receptive to the people, while at the same time Americans have become more dissatisfied with government. Fiorina thinks this is because the people who participate tend to be extreme, so moderate voices are drowned out.
He wants us to try bringing in new people. Increase participation. |
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Civic society was actually very strong in the Weimar republic, and accelerated rather than detracted from the growth of Nazism. Why didn't civic society work the way we would like it to in this case?
1) Groups didn't have faith in government, so they didn't engage with it
2) Groups tended to be really homogenous: |
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Accountable Autonomy
Give people tasks, a basic template, and hold them accountable, but also give them freedom to do things how they want.
Strong egalitarian hypothesis is that the more privileged will participate much more. Kinda true in this case, but not entirely. We can't use this to write off participation.
Habermas: compared to centralized deliberation, decentralized deliberation is more likely to give voice to otherwise-excluded groups.
Accountable autonomy may be more favorable to marginalized voices, compared to other forms of deliberation |
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1) "initial conditions bear importantly upon democratic performance"
2) "inclusive participation and fair deliberation depend crucially upon the implementation of the centralized elements of accountable autonomy.
3) "The institutional outcomes in all of the cases were higher under accountable autonomy than under command-and-control arrangements."
4)"While it is true that the most advantaged neighborhood, Traxton, was also the one in which deliberations were most fair and effective, all of the other cases gained much more corm accountable autonomy relative to what insular bureaucratic arrangements had given them." (224-225
When deliberating on essential, local questions, "ordinary participation biases were reversed -- there were more women than men, and more poor people than wealthy ones." 232 |
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The same tactics and theories that drove democratic deliberation in Chicago can be applied to other situations.
Ecosystem management in Brazil
Democratic decentralization in Kerala, India (gave 40% control of the budget to local villages on the condition that they use a complex and careful process for using it.) |
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