Dear election methods fans,
I just wanted to let you know that I've finished the first draft of my direct / proxy democracy paper, and posted it online at http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/vm/proxy2010.pdf I'd really appreciate any feedback that you have time to give. At this point, I'm rather unsatisfied with the part of the lit review that talks about the proxy work that has been done outside the realm of academic journals, and I'm hoping that a few of you might be able to help with that. It's pretty short, which is fine, I'd like it to at least be correct and a fairly good representation of what's been happening, albeit in miniature. It's at the end of section 2, and in the current draft it's on page 6. Abd, I'd still like to mention your work in here, if you can give me something to cite. I'd like to say something about 'Liquid Democracy', but I haven't been able to find anything that I can really cite for that either. I'm on the fence about the Pivato paper. Also, I think that I'm garbling the stuff about proxy software... I don't really know if there's a difference between Votorola and Adhocracy, in part because some of the web sites that mention them (like those at liqd.net) are in German. (?) Plus I'm not quite sure that I've got the Demoex stuff quite right, since that stuff is in Swedish. Argh. Help? my best, James Green-Armytage P.S. I still don't have a title, so I'm open to suggestions on that. I use the term 'voluntary representation' a lot, which I think gets to a key conceptual point, but I'm not quite sure that it works 100%.
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