Pragmarchy: The Building Principle of Peer Democracy

Pragmarchy is division of labor applied to decision-making. Not among politicians, but among people.

A new political concept is coined: Pragmarchy. Modern political thought offers us a familiar binary. On one side stands autocracy; concentrated, efficient, and dangerously unaccountable. On the other stands what Robert Dahl termed polyarchy. In this system, many people have a say. However, that say is filtered through representatives. These representatives are chosen at intervals … Read more