Our Questions
Below are three initial questions about how we can develop a successful model for making Real Democracy.
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Question 1: How can people become motivated to participate?
Many will agree with the proposition that they would like to make their own lives better by making the lives of others better. But they are used to feeling powerless; to feeling there is nothing much they can do; that the only option available for them is to protest and complain. Real Democracy will give everyone the chance to participate in a process that involves millions of others. How can they be convinced that it is worthwhile allocating some of their time to participating in it?
Question 2: How can we ensure that the strategies which emerge are taken forward by government?
It is a fundamental principle of democracy that power derives from the people. Real Democracy is about citizens giving politicians a brief for what they want them to do. It stands to reason that this should become the bedrock for policy formation. But how can we ensure that is what actually happens.
Question 3: What changes need to be made to the way we are governed?
If politicians are elected to implement strategies that have already been designed, what sort of people are they? How will they ‘sell’ themselves to the electorate. And if the strategies they are being asked to implement cover every part of the system in which people’s lives are embedded, how is the civil service organised to represent the whole?