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Worldwide Public Opinion

Remarkably, worldwide public opinion polling already shows broad support for a shift in this direction.

According to Global Challenges Foundation polling of adults in eight major countries:

  • 75% of adults “consider themselves global citizens.”
  • 71% “think that a new supranational organization needs to be created to respond to global risks.”
  • 59% “say they would be willing for their country to give up some of its sovereignty if that could help respond to global risks.”

Further data supports these findings as well. A 2016 BBC poll found that among 18 countries:

  • “51 percent of people see themselves more as global citizens than national citizens.”

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