Information Society for Enlightened Voting

Passy, Solomon. "Information Society for Enlightened Voting." Serdica Journal of Computing 9.3-4 (2015): 281-286. <http://eudml.org/doc/289528>.

@article{Passy2015,
abstract = {Among the millions of words uttered and written on the subject of democracy, Winston Churchill’s are among the most famous: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” [4] The occasion of the remark – it was made on 11 November 1947, when the great wartime leader spoke for the opposition in Britain’s House of Commons – is a reminder of how far the world has since travelled. Yet the passing of six decades notwithstanding, mankind is still subservient to the classical dogma embodied in Churchill’s phrase: that democracy is synonymous with universal suffrage. It was always open to question. But today, new and evolving technologies enable us to discard it – not to abolish democracy (who would want to do that?), but to enrich democracy with more effective, more innovative and more moral forms of enlightened government across the world.},
author = {Passy, Solomon},
journal = {Serdica Journal of Computing},
keywords = {Information Society},
language = {eng},
number = {3-4},
pages = {281-286},
publisher = {Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences},
title = {Information Society for Enlightened Voting},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/289528},
volume = {9},
year = {2015},
}

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AU - Passy, Solomon
TI - Information Society for Enlightened Voting
JO - Serdica Journal of Computing
PY - 2015
PB - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
VL - 9
IS - 3-4
SP - 281
EP - 286
AB - Among the millions of words uttered and written on the subject of democracy, Winston Churchill’s are among the most famous: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” [4] The occasion of the remark – it was made on 11 November 1947, when the great wartime leader spoke for the opposition in Britain’s House of Commons – is a reminder of how far the world has since travelled. Yet the passing of six decades notwithstanding, mankind is still subservient to the classical dogma embodied in Churchill’s phrase: that democracy is synonymous with universal suffrage. It was always open to question. But today, new and evolving technologies enable us to discard it – not to abolish democracy (who would want to do that?), but to enrich democracy with more effective, more innovative and more moral forms of enlightened government across the world.
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