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e-Democracy, The Development of Public
Policy and the Next Step of Democracy for
the 21st Century
By
Daniel Raphael, Ph.D.
This book describes an egalitarian,
evolutionary development of democracy
(nominally titled “the emanation process”)
using the antiquarian democracy of The
United States as a point of departure. It is
equally applicable and adaptable to any
institution, organization, or governmental
entity, local or national that already uses
democratic processes: e.g., associations
(shareholder association and homeowners
associations, for example), districts, and
other jurisdictional entities. The strength
of this process lies in its capacity to
unite citizens or members from widespread
distances to form blocks of opinions; and
has the capacity to aid the formation of
coalitions of opinion. Used within
established jurisdictions, it acts to
legitimate interests, positions, and blocks
of opinion.
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Table of
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Flow Chart
e-DEMOCRACY FOR DUMMIES
In A Nutshell
PART 1 The NEXT STEP of DEMOCRACY for the
21ST CENTURY
1
Questions and Answers about Increased
Citizen Participation in Governance
2 EMANATION, An Organization
3 What to Expect
PART 2 SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS
4
Progress of Political Change
5
Rationale for the Next Step of Democracy
6 Justification for the Next Step of
Democracy
PART 3 SOCIAL, POLITICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
7 The
Renewal of the United States' Vision,
Mission, and Destiny
8 One Viewpoint
for Devising Long Range Public Policy
9 Fundamentals of Freedom and Democracy
10 Public Dialogue
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Preface
Viet Nam, 1969: I wondered why the anti-war
demonstrations were not more effective. I
also wondered why citizens did not have a
more effective means for sharing their grief
and opinions, and why the Constitution and
Amendments did not provide these means.
Twenty years later, (1992), after I had
self-published The Development of Public
Policy and the Next Step of Democracy for
the 21st Century, I realized that the US
population still did not have a means for
more effectively participating in their own
governance. Yet, I believed that I had
discovered the seeds of the next
evolutionary step of democracy that could.
Today, those means do exist! Advances in
personal computers and Internet technologies
enable the next evolutionary step of
democracy to be….
Introduction
What sustains a democracy is the empowerment
of each citizen as an equal of others. A
sustaining, functional democracy does not
favor one political party, interest group,
economic group, social group, ethnic or
racial group, or one religion or religious
group over another. A democracy provides a
level playing field where all individuals
can come forward to participate. Any new
development of democracy, to successfully
advance the evolution of a democracy, must
extend that equality. Any bias for any one
group over others will make all individuals
in other groups unequal, and therein lay the
seeds of a democracy’s demise. ….
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