2.11

Who Frames the Questions?

A key question is, who frames and poses the questions on which everyone votes?

This is one of just three areas where elections of individuals (as opposed to voting on policy) may still play a role (the other two being: who judges constitutional questions, and who enforces, both described under separate headings below). We can elect people to pose the questions fairly.

The proposing of questions can also be crowdsourced, through online fora that support up-voting of new questions, including suggested language, so that elected questioners can not obstruct popular responses to emergent issues. With technology-enabled voting, elected questioners can also be rapidly recalled, and quickly replaced from a stable of deputies (just as today a president can be quickly replaced by a vice president, or jurors by alternates).

Index

1 – Abstract
2 – Description of the Model
2.1 – Separate Countries are Failing Us
2.2 – We Need a Global Democracy
2.3 – How is this Possible? Through Two New Technologies
2.4 – Blockchains for Security
2.5 – Critical Success Factors
2.6 – Design
2.7 – Liquid Democracy
2.8 – Deliberation
2.9 – The Right to Information
2.10 – Subsidiarity: Localizing Decisions Whenever Possible
2.11 – Who Frames the Questions?
2.12 – Language Barriers
2.13 – Constitutional Guarantees to Protect Rights
2.14 – Constitutional Court
2.15 – Enforcement
2.16 – Phasing In
2.17 – Can We Really Unify Separate Countries?
2.18 – Worldwide Public Opinion
2.19 – Realistically, How Can We Get There?
3 – Argumentation
3.A – Core Values
3.B – Decision-Making Capacity
3.C – Effectiveness
3.D – Resources and Financing
3.E – Trust and Insight
3.F – Flexibility
3.G – Protection Against the Abuse of Power
3.H – Accountability