Bill,
welcome to World Wide
Direct Democracy l am sure a person of your standing will bring great
value to our movement, and l look forward to researching your work.
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From: Bill(at)Politicalpsychologyresearch.com
To:
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Sent: Friday, August 07,
2009 4:01 PM
Subject: [WDDM] Hello as a
new member.
Date:
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:03:32 -0700
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
William
A. McConochie, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist #225 (Oregon)
71 E.15th Ave., Eugene, Or. 97401
541-686-9934
Bill(at)Politicalpsychologyresearch.com
Much about politics originates in
our minds;
Understanding our minds explains much about politics.