55 links have been added on 16 ideas about #democracy.
  1. You can deploy voting apps in nearly any industry that deals with data https://2muchcoffee.com/blog/how-to-build-an-online-poll-or-voting-app/

  2. In the UK between 1945 and 1970, 66% of the middle class voted Conservative and 62% of the working class voted Labour. This is no longer so for a variety of reasons. This article explains why.

  3. Democrats are attracting more affluent voters. Maybe because many of their representatives are from well-off families.

  4. Interesting idea, but how do you do that? According to Leonard Beeghley “Many politicians, heirs to fortunes, top business executives such as CEOs, successful venture capitalists, and celebrities are considered members of the upper class. Some prominent and high-rung professionals may also be included if they attain great influence and wealth. The main distinguishing feature of this class is their source of income. While the vast majority of people and households derive their income from salaries, those in the upper class derive their income primarily from investments and capital gains.”

  5. President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Ramaphosa, who was voted into power in 2018, earns $341,803, 19 times more than the average South African – you want him to have more if he gets more people to vote against him? With respect, this is a very STUPID IDEA

  6. They do it for the perks not the pay. If they wanted money they would have stayed in industry. Plus, not all of them are money-grabbers. Check this list out, Putin and some others are doing quite well by having a job that protects their other incomes.

  7. It isn’t in the interest of the ruling party to have more people vote, so don’t expect a raise.

  8. You want more people to vote? Give them a better income. Easily explained here.

  9. I don’t think the American trump voters or UK Brexiteers intended it, but they are pushing the cause of a global government, regardless of which nations get a decent share during the initial power grab.

  10. Science, climate and peace sure are global issues that affect the entire world. Maybe each government should vote for a world leader. A possible solution to the one-sided situation we will enter true globalism with.

  11. Not to worry, America’s influence on the world is declining, due to their self-interested voting record. America-First… not for long.

    “It hasn’t been OK. After four years of Trump’s “America first” — or, more accurately, “America only” — approach to international relations, the U.S. is less respected and less influential than it has been in decades. “

  12. Sounds reasonable on first view but the CPI isn’t a good measure of how well things are going – plus, what if the previous administration messed up and things skydive? Then you would only have politicians who don’t need the money- because they have plenty already.

  13. Not if it sways the vote away from your guy…. Sunday’s order came as little surprise after the state’s supreme court on Oct. 22 denied a similar request to halt drive-through voting, in a lawsuit filed by the Republican parties of Texas and Harris County.

  14. ‘No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

    Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

  15. “Politicians might offer enticing tax breaks to woo voters at the next electoral contest, while ignoring long-term issues out of which they can make little immediate political capital”

  16. Interesting, both the US and UK are more dissatisfied than satisfied with how parliamentary democracy panned out. Time for a rethink, but despite the US being a republic rather than a democracy, it seems offering an alternative is unamerican. Times are changing though.

  17. Greens would do better if, like Labour and the rest, they actually had a donations button on the front of their website – what are they thinking about, sending people to some action network site in order to collect donations. Daft

  18. Greens also believe in the many not the few thing, always did.

  19. This is called disaproval voting I think – it could just take a vote of the one you negatively voted for. simple.

  20. The rest of the world could learn a thing or two from the UK here. It teaches kids about voting and what people do to try to sway your opinion.

  21. Having a right to affect your own life is laid out by law – which is why many schools have councils. They are a great thing and should be universal.

  22. If you don’t like Labour… Donate to the Socialists.

  23. We might need this one day – especially if the world keep changing faster and faster https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2018.1470165

  24. Yeah, they should have to submit their spend before election is called in order to qualify – or be disqualified. Cheating shouldn’t be rewarded in this case, its too important.

    “Likewise, if the Commission’s incorrect interpretation of the law effectively allowed the official Leave Campaign to spend more than the official Remain campaign, then Remainers have significant grounds for grievance.

    At the centre of all of this sit the Electoral Commission, who do seem to have blundered. There have been some loud calls for a serious shake up there from both sides of this quarrel today, and I have some sympathy for that.”

  25. Chief whips are the real chaos merchants. Quote from a former tory chief bully boy:

    “Problems involving members “might be debt, or it might be a scandal involving small boys”.

    “They would come and ask if we could help,” Fortescue said. “And if we could we did, and we would do everything we could, because we could store up brownie points.

    “That’s one of the reasons we would get a chap out of trouble – because he’d then be ours forever-more.”

  26. You can add all these arseholes to the list for a start. Would be interesting to know which one tops the shit list as voted by users. And yep, boycotting just the worst one would ensure they changed their ways – or die.

  27. These criminal companies should appear somewhere on the list for sure. Most are hidden brands though that you motorists don’t realise you are sponsoring. shameful.

    The top 20 companies have contributed to 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent since 1965

    Saudi Aramco 59.26
    Chevron 43.35
    Gazprom 43.23
    ExxonMobil 41.90
    National Iranian Oil Co 35.66
    BP 34.02
    Royal Dutch Shell 31.95
    Coal India 23.12
    Pemex 22.65
    Petróleos de Venezuela 15.75
    PetroChina 15.63
    Peabody Energy 15.39
    ConocoPhillips 15.23
    Abu Dhabi National Oil Co 13.84
    Kuwait Petroleum Corp 13.48
    Iraq National Oil Co 12.60
    Total SA 12.35
    Sonatrach 12.30
    BHP Billiton 9.80
    Petrobras 8.68

  28. I read this one, which gives the impression they should be watched around the clock. Since Thatcher reinvented the role as “cabinet enforcers” and my local MP was a tory chief whip, no MP is likely to get a free vote. Great book btw.

  29. richb

    Please read this book to discover exactly why we should never go down this route