Sublime

More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.

Democratic practices can emerge among feudal technologies. Administrators may feel rhetorical or social pressure to respect the values of community members in how they exert their otherwise absolute authority. Feudal networks can thereby exhibit forms of accountability that political scientist David Stasavage calls “early democracy,” resembling the

vTaiwan is constantly experimenting with new deliberation and voting tools, integrating LLMs for summarization.

Democratic innovations that are currently taking shape slowly and hesitantly – like liquid democracy (which equips people to allocate their voice to those they trust on an issue-by-issue basis, rather than the relatively blunt nature of electoral representation) or quadratic voting (which enables the quick and simple aggregation of the preferences

Technologies can open political doors that ordinary politics may not open alone. We see this pattern in governments’ willingness to let ridesharing apps categorically violate labor law or for nuclear weapons to justify consolidating the authority of a chief executive.

roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.