LEADER 04074oam 22004694a 450 001 9910247446703321 005 20231128220131.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0153.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283590 035 $a(OAPEN)1004622 035 $a(OCoLC)1183978484 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87200 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37428 035 $a(oapen)doab37428 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283590 100 $a20200729e20202016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRescuing Democracy$fPaul E. Smith 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2016 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (515 pages) $cillustrations, charts; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 0998237507 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 469-499) and index. 327 $aSigns of failure -- Diagnosing dysfunction. Democratic dysfunction from fundamental structure -- Susceptibility to dysfunction : types of democracy -- A pervasive symptom of dysfunction : escalating the scarcity of natural capital -- Prescribing a remedy. The people's forum : a deliberative aid for liberal democracies -- Design details of the people's forum -- Likely reactions to the forum -- Supporting devices, performance indicators and trialing the people's forum. 330 $aThis book proposes a new institution -- the 'People's Forum' -- to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it. An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aDeliberative democracy 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aDeliberative democracy. 676 $a321.8/0938/5 700 $aSmith$b Paul E$g(Paul Edmund),$0221607 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247446703321 996 $aRescuing Democracy$92180511 997 $aUNINA