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Subject: [WDDM] Hello as a new
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun
2009 13:03:32 -0700
6/22/09
Hello World Wide Democracy group
members:
I am a new member, Bill
McConochie. I am a research psychologist specializing for the past
several years in political psychology research. My findings and
personal inclinations are very consonnant with those of your
organization. I believe I could help you in several ways to promote
and realize your ultimate goal of advancing human civilization to direct
democracy forms of governments. I will list some of these and await
your responses. Before I do that, let me share just a little more
personal background. I have a Ph.D., and 40 years of experience in
clinical, I/O and now political psychology. I have created a
non-profit corp. to publish my research and conduct research over the
Internet. I am a member of the American Psychological Assn, Div. 48
(Peace and Violence studies), the International Society of Political
Psychology, and the Oregon Psychological Assn. I present papers at
the annual meetings of ISPP. I will present one in Dublin in July
(09).
How I might be able to help you:
1. I have research findings that strongly
support human desire for government serving them as members of the
community overall rather than as members of special interest groups.
This sort of data, of which I have much, can support your efforts, giving
them an empirical and not just ideological grounding.
2. I have developed a reliable and valid scale
for measuring the warmongering-proness of political leaders, and have
another one ready for validation measuring constructive leadership
traits. These can be used by the media to help inform voters re:
what elected officials are likely to promote.
3. I have designed a working model for a
political party whose platform is based on member (citizen) polls of what
they want government to provide (policies and programs).
4. Sophisticated public polls on details of
policy issues can be conducted to create the platform for such a party
(and for your organization). They in effect pool all citizen
opinions to create a current empirical definition of the common
good. Your organization could conduct such polls and publish the
findings to inform nations and the world re: what citizens want from
government. This can help pressure standing governments to perform
more appropriately and empower political parties that want to represent
the common good (such parties, I recommend, should be funded entirely with
member dues, no special interest group money). Such
parties would fund the campaigns of their candidates for elective
office as well, keeping their elected candidates independent of the
contaminating influence of special interest group money.
5. You could help me by having students and
other groups, e.g. church groups, fill out my research
questionnaires, which are online at my web site.
6. Together we could thus continue the
research that can give empirical grounding to your movement and perfect
the public polls necessary to operationalize public democracy, defining
policy via citizen votes.
This is enough for an
introduction. Please visit my web site to read various research and
essay articles under the Publications page.
Politicalpsychologyresearch.com.
I look forward to hearing
responses.
Best
regards, Bill McConochie
Much about politics
originates in our minds;
Understanding our minds explains much about
politics.