Show Notes
Originally recorded on Monday, 21st August 2017. This event called Citizens' Democracy, introduces the idea of citizen juries and deliberative democracy. In the interest of podcast listeners, it is split to a 3 part series.
For this podcast, this is the Q&A segment where these questions were asked about the Citizen Juries and Deliberative Democracy models that Nicolas and Hubertus presented about:
How do you introduce this idea to the general public? What sort of result do you need in the next election, before you can demonstrate to the public that this system can work? Is there an algorithm to help select a citizen juries to make it as representative as possible? Have you heard of any kind of meritocratic appointment system? How would your system avoid corruption and manipulation? Citizens can deal with issues, but are they dealing with the right issues? How will citizen juries work within existing systems? How do you hold your citizen juries party representative accountable? Are you suggesting to have citizen juries replace the senate? Host noted a question from a previous event. What are the main factors for the acceptance of citizen juries? Did the press humanise the citizen juries members?
Lateral Economics CEO Nicholas Gruen will be presenting his idea of Citizens Juries for improving democracy, then Austrian Chief Futurist and CEO of Prediki. Hubertus Hofkirchner, will talk about his proposal for a citizen parliament fresh from the Austrian elections via video link.
After both speakers have spoken, a Q&A session was held with both speakers after their presentations.
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