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02858: Re: [WDDM] Ferocious Attack on DD by the Economist

From: lpc1998 <lpc1998(at)lpc1998.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Ferocious Attack on DD by the Economist

What have you found the article is primarily about? About the failure of DD as practised in California or the inherent disaster DD is as model of governance? If you have some other understanding of the article, what is it?


From: Jim Powell <jimpowell(at)mweb.co.za>
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Sent: Fri, April 22, 2011 1:14:05 PM
Subject: RE: [WDDM] Ferocious Attack on DD by the Economist

I have read the article and found it informative and balanced

Jim Powell

South Africa

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua N Pritikin
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 6:57 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Ferocious Attack on DD by the Economist

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:13:48PM +0930, Martin Jackson wrote:
> Rather than being the curb on elites that they were supposed to be,
> ballot initiatives have become a tool of special interests, with
> lobbyists and extremists bankrolling laws that are often bewildering
> in their complexity and obscure in their ramifications.

Agreed

That is why we need to take the discussion of DD to a more sophisticated
level with deliberative procedures.

Check out http://ni4d.us for a serious proposal


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