We Need to Reset Democracy – TEDx Talk

Our current democratic system is like a twentieth-century computer trying to run twenty-first-century programmes.

We need to upgrade our system, drawing on our untapped abilities as citizens. Things like citizens’ assemblies and crowdsourcing laws are the way of the future – mechanisms that allow us, as ordinary individuals, to step up and take a much more direct role in discussing the issues and shaping the big political decisions that affect our lives.

Watch Video Here:

Take Part in this discussion in our Transitional Democracy Series:

Questions regarding Resetting Democracy in New Zealand:

  1. Do you believe democracy in New Zealand needs to be reset?
  2. Would you support the incoming government committing to creating an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Action Plan substantially more ambitious than the previous ones?
  3. Would you support the incoming government committing to a comprehensive review of participation in the political process in the next term?
  4. Would you support the incoming government committing to a comprehensive overhaul of the Electoral Act?
  5. Would you support the incoming government committing to a comprehensive overhaul of the Official Information Act?
  6. Would you support the incoming government committing to holding at least one Citizens Assembly in the next term?
  7. Would you support the incoming government committing to comprehensive constitutional reform by 2040?
  8. What other innovative solutions should we be considering in order to Reset Our Democracy?

More more detail and to answer please sign in to NextElection below

Comment Here:

Max Rashbrooke is the J. D. Stout Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, and has written extensively on issues of economic inequality and democratic renewal. The author of multiple books, including Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action, he is a regular commentator in domestic and international media.

Take Part in the Transition

ScoopCitizen is walking the walk on this participatory democracy through the Transitional Democracy series and our partnership with NextElection in the lead up to the 2020 election and beyond…. Find Out More here

Support The Dig |
Total
1
Shares
Like 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 1

Max Rashbrooke is a Wellington-based writer with twin interests in economic inequality and democratic participation, and is currently the 2020 J. D. Stout Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action, published by Bridget Williams Books (BWB) in September 2018. He is also the author of Wealth and New Zealand, and edited the best-selling work Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. He is a senior associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, his work appears in outlets such as the Guardian and Prospect magazine, and he is a regular commentator in the New Zealand media.