Ralph Borsodi's Seventeen Problems of Society and Man (1968), specifically his examination of political problems -- representation, elections

Borsodi 1968 book Seventeen Problems of Society and Man offers great promise,

but spends so much time on terminology that it lost its appeal to me,

but here 's some notes for those interested.

p. 481: The Problem of operation -- the crucial problem in the operations of a megalorean enterprise such as a State is decision

- how are the decisions to be made when so many people are involved?

three options

1. decision by sortition (by lot, by oracle, by the arbitrament of chance)

   
   

2. delegating decision to a single person

   
   

3. group decision -- delegation of the decision to a committee to an assembly to the whole electorate.

Some kinds of political decisions should be left to a single person, particularly when time is of the essence; others when sufficient times is available to one or another kind of group decision; and when [even more] time is available, to some sort of plebiscite."

my note:

sortition can be used to compose a legislative chamber. (the Oracle or mere chance is not recommended for either policy making or determining the composition of a Legislature.)

2. decision making by a single person does not allow representative sampling of opinion of the citizenry

p. 483 Various proposals about who and how the government should be controlled

25 schemes

divided into four groups:

1. quantitative;

2. 2. usurpatory

3. 3. economic

4. 4. qualitative

1. quantitative; -- schemes for constituting and operating States in which control is provided by by some designated number of persons.

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Monarchic control

Oligarchic control

Factional control

Proportional control

if the term democracy is to be used with anything remotely similar to scientific precision, it must mean a government in which all the people rule, not a Plurality or a majority of the people, not a faction (as in one-party Fascist, Socialist or Communist States), and not even a parliamentary or other representatives of the people.

Republican control

Democratic control only true meaning is decision are made by consensus in meetings in which everybody can participate.

But the "State" must be small small enough to make face-to-face meetings possible

2. usurpatory

Dynastic

Genearchic control

Ochlocratic control

dictatorial control

3. Economic schemes of control

   clerical

   secular

   Stratocratic

   Plutocratic

   
   

4. Bourgeois

   Financial

   feudal

   Agrarian

   Ergocratic workers control

   Proletarian

   Bureaucratic

   Ethnocratic

   Androcratic

   Gyneocratic

p. 488

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