The document discusses policy governance and its potential benefits for cooperatives concerned with member democracy. It presents five reasons why policy governance could help: 1) It prevents the "iron law of oligarchy" where a small group gains control. 2) It establishes clear ends and limitations to guide decisions for member benefit. 3) It avoids bureaucracy taking over public institutions. 4) Doing democracy badly undermines the idea of democracy itself. 5) It favors an open source approach over undemocratic centralism.