Here’s Kevin Harris on possible (!) legislation that would allow local people to vote on what form of punishment is handed out to convicted criminals in their neighbourhood.
Last year, the Swiss voted on whether individual citizenship applications should be ratified by secret ballots.
Commenting on this at the time, Alex Harrowell noted that referendums are not [...]
Posts on ‘January 5th, 2009’
Unwise crowds?
2009 predictions from elsewhere (and one of my own)
My friend, former Hansard Society e-democracy watcher Ross Ferguson says:
A local government will fall head-over-heels in love with the promise of eDemocracy and launch into an ambitious project to put digital front-and-centre of its democratic processes and service provision. It will be facilitated with next-generation municipal ICT and it will capture our imaginations but it [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
