Co-voting democracy

Abstract

We outline a new voting procedure for representative democracies. This procedure should be used for important decisions only and consists of two voting rounds: a randomly-selected subset of the citizens is awarded a one-time voting right. The parliament also votes, and the two decisions are weighted according to a predefined key. The final decision is implemented. As this procedure gives the societyrepresented by the randomly-chosen subset-a better say for important decisions, the citizens might be more willing to accept the consequences of these decisions. KeywordsCo-voting • Representative democracy • Citizen participation • Legitimacy of democracy • Assessment Voting JEL Classification D7 • D8I would like to thank Oriol Tejada, Gebhard Kirchgässner, the editor and the referees for valuable comments and suggestions.

Democratizing Tech Giants! A roadmap

“…Our idea is to find solutions in which the Tech Giants and users play an active part. We develop new collective decision procedures that can be used for experimenting, and our monitoring problem with the Tech Giants would be an ideal field of experimentation (Gersbach et al 2019;Gersbach 2017).…”

“…A first area in which to look for solutions are voting procedures. While a voting among all users is conceivable, more efficient voting procedures in the spirit of Co-voting might be more suitable (Gersbach 2017). With Co-voting, a randomlyselected representative subgroup of all users would be selected-a so-called "Assessment Group".…”