Debating Democracy

This book is split in half. First half is by author Brennan, who claims we should have less democracy and second half is by author Landemore who claims we should have more.

First half presents some interesting arguments and techniques, yet in its foundations is about how most people don't have enough political knowledge. With this, both the second author and I, disagree categorically.

Second half is about democracy in its proper form, which these days we call: deliberative democracy. The author defines yet another word: open democracy, which is an interesting variation based in sortition and collective decisions. Furthermore, the author debates against noocracy in many of its forms, ie. technocracy, meritocracy, epistocracy. Finally, she talks about why current democratic countries are failing in social matters.