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Topia!: Society: Politics: Democracy: Direct Democracy (29)
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Defacto Elective Voters Of a True Equal Democracy (DEVOTED) - Supports a constitutional amendment using existing technology to allow citizens to vote directly in the law making process. Direct Democracy Center - Proposes a Constitutional Amendment to enfranchise all Americans into the political process through an electronic polling system connected to every home. Contains a repository of information about and links to other efforts to empower all of "The People." Voting By Phone - A non-profit organization devoted to educating the public about direct democracy. Solutions include voting on laws and candidates by internet and telephone. Direct Democracy Campaign (DDC) - Campaigning for government by referendum in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Provides proposals, opinion articles, and news on the status of direct democracy. Coalition for National Referendum - Organization which seeks to use a national referendum to resolve divisive issues in the United States. Congress of International Direct Democracy - Participants from 14 nations around the world. Many participated as individual citizens of their countries while others represented a variety of universities or institutions devoted to improving democracy in their lands or across national boundaries. Teledemocracy Action News Network - A global organization primarily dedicated use of modern technologies in all forms that directly empower citizens to have input into political systems at all levels of governance around the world. Direct Democracy Forum - Message boards, mailing lists, and other networking resources for direct democracy supporters and activists. Revolutionary Committees Movement - Direct Democracy and a unique brand of socialism in the 'Third Universal Theory' according to Moammar Kadhafi (Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi), the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" and worldwide and African Mathaba. Movement for Direct Democracy - Describes reasons for change, thoughts on strategy, and a schematic for voting by digital telephone. Direct Democracy - Articles about the origins of democracy, the free market, and a plan for instituting direct democratic governance over twenty years. Special section for teachers. 5d - Digital . Dynamic . Deliberative . Direct . Democracy - A site promoting the 5 ds through the use of DAVE an initiative to rid the world of politicians and replace them with people. Philadelphia II, Direct Democracy - 'National Initiative for Direct Democracy', USA constitutional amendment and federal law proposal. Direct Votes - Provides links and contact information for parties and organizations supportive of direct democracy in the UK. ReDemocracy - Seeks a five-year trial where the authority of ONLY the non-emergency powers of ONLY the U.S. House of Representatives is vested in the people through periodic electronic, phone and absentee or USPS mail voting. The Democracy Foundation - Direct democracy research group led by former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel. Profiles board members and current projects. Democracy 2.0 - Site advocating direct democracy and principles at all levels of government in the United States. Links to supporting historical and current documents. Democracy and The Personal Representative - Advocates direct democracy and criticizes the present Canadian polity. Offers proposals for reform and reconstruction in the areas of constitutional bodies, rights, and participation. DDemocracy Meeting Place - Large list of direct democracy sites arranged by country, with new URL's added by visitors; resources on voting systems and theories; message board. I&R: Citizens' Initiative and Referendum - Proposals and campaign resources for direct democracy such as citizens' initiative, referendum, and recall in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Initiative and Referendum Institute - Non-profit non-partisan research and educational organization dedicated to the expansion of the initiative and referendum process in the US. Global Referendum - Provides an interface to collect online votes verified by deliverable e-mail addresses on global issues. Direct Democracy League (DDL) - Advocates national and state level constitutional renewal in the United States to meld direct democracy institutions with representative institutions. Documents and links. Janocracy - Advances direct democracy as practiced in a community in Parappally, Kerala, India. Discussion list for the theory, offering sympathetic arguments made by Lincoln and Gandhi and movement news. National Initiative For Democracy - Seeks a Constititutional amendment to establish a "Legislature of the People" in the United States. Describes rationale and basic principles, outlines action plan, and links to activism resources. Direct Access Democracy - Proposes a form of direct democracy in which voting is done in small groups, the results of which are binding upon elected representatives. Site also provides an overview of strengths and weaknesses of representative and direct democracy and an illustration of DAD.
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