People want competence, seemingly over everything else
“The issue lattice is sufficiently complex,” Agre writes, “that it will never emerge without high levels of political skill diffused throughout the society.”
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
former lack technical competence and the latter lack democratic legitimacy,
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
A modest and non-utopian proposal would be to greatly enhance the opportunities for politicians to learn about the past, present and future, helping them to be better vehicles for the imagination of their societies as well as to better address the problems of today.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Faith in the democratic process is in decline. If other systems deliver the goods, and provide prosperity and other results people care about, then the democratic method faces a serious challenge on the basis of the outcomes it produces.
James S. Fishkin • Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
The key to success is to make educated decisions, based on sound design and scope calculations.