The document discusses different forms of democracy and introduces the concept of liquid democracy. Liquid democracy aims to combine the advantages of direct and representative democracy by allowing voters to delegate their vote to representatives for certain issues, policy areas, or decisions, while maintaining the ability to revoke those delegations at any time. It also allows any member of a liquid democracy system to potentially act as a politician. The document then provides examples of organizations experimenting with liquid democracy and references for further reading on its concepts and implementations.

1. Liquid Democracy (Inception)
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Democracy Today
Direct Democracy
• Voters express their opinions by continuously voting on
issues.
• Advantages: offers citizens full control, accountability and
equality.
• Issues: don’t scale, becomes impractical for voters to be
informed about all issues (no time, desire or expertise)
Representative Democracy
• Involves handing over one’s voting right to representatives
who act on one’s behalf for making decisions.
• Advantages: scale well.
• Issues:
• Restricted set of candidates.
• Election cycles (4 years)
• Corruption (power++).

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Liquid Democracy
Concept
• A member can give their vote to another member
for all issues, for a particular policy area, or for a
particular decision only for any length of time.
• That vote can be rescinded at any time.
• Every person within a Liquid Democracy platform
is a potential politician.
Issues
• Real law vs. for reference
• Disclose identity vs. anonymity (vs. hybrid)
• Super-voters**
Liquid Democracy is a fast, decentralized, collaborative question-answering system, which works by
enabling chained answer recommendation*. It occupies the middle ground somewhere between direct
and representative democracy, and is designed to ensure that the things we all hold in common stay
properly maintained (by small, stealthy, distributed teams of anarchist kung-fu badasses, if need be),
even in the face of radical technological change.
Sayke (http://seed.sourceforge.net/ld_k5_article_004.html)
* vote proxy vs. answer recomendation (Delegative vs. Liquid)
** https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/viewFile/10566/10504

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Liquid Democracy Today
Interactive Democratie e.V
The liquid delegation of proxy votes is a core feature.
A tool for decision-making no for deliberation.
Liquid Democracy e.V
Delegation proxy not required.
Designed for public deliberation.
Google Votes (http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series)
http://www.interaktive-demokratie.org/, German Pirate
Party, Liquid Friesland (reference), Five-Star Movement
Enquete-Kommission Internet und digitale Gesellschaft
des Deutschen Bundestages**, https://adhocracy.de/,
https://liqd.net/en/projects/
Democratic file revision control with LiquidFeedBack*
* http://www.liquid-democracy-journal.org/issue/4/The_Liquid_Democracy_Journal-Issue004-01-Democratic_Revision_Control_with_LiquidFeedback.html
** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enquete-Kommission_Internet_und_digitale_Gesellschaft
The DAO

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Continue Reading
Manifesto
John Washington Donoso (aka Sayke) http://seed.sourceforge.net/ld_k5_article_004.html
Starting Point
Introductory Video by Jakob Jochmann https://youtu.be/fg0_Vhldz-8
P2P Fundation http://p2pfoundation.net/Liquid_Democracy
Great Post by Dominik Schiner
https://medium.com/@DomSchiener/liquid-democracy-true-democracy-for-the-21st-century-7c66f5e53b6f#.us8qh2sg8
LiquidFeedback
LiquidFeedBack web page http://www.liquidfeedback.org/
Interaktive Demokratie web page http://www.interaktive-demokratie.org/
The principles of LiquidFeedback http://principles.liquidfeedback.org/
Great interview about Liquid Democracy from the point of view of LiquidFeedback creators
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jan-behrens-axel-kistner-andreas-nitsche-bj%C3%B6rn-swierczek-marco-deseriis/
liquid-de
Adhocracy
Liquid Democracy e.V web page https://liqd.net/en/
Adhocracy.de deployment https://adhocracy.de
Other References
Ethereum https://www.ethereum.org/
The DAO https://daohub.org/
Liquid Democracy with Google Votes Video https://youtu.be/F4lkCECSBFw
Votorola http://reluk.ca/project/votorola/home.html
Bryan Ford works http://www.brynosaurus.com/deleg/

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