Cover article of this week was India. As concerns India, we tend to focus on its economy. However this article focuses on its security and foreign policy. They point out its lack of a strategic culture and outdated philosophy of non-alignance. "A great power" does not mean economic power but means political power for its region. To be a great power or not to be, that is a choice by itself. But the West clearly expect India to be concerned on its region's peacemaking.
Additional article I chose this week was from International about politics and IT.
International: Participatory politics
Processing power
The internet helps politician listen better to their electors. If
they want to
My interest:
1.
What does “digital politics” mean?
One of my friends is an activist on opening the election campaign on
the internet. His opinion is reasonable so the government is trying to open
election activities on the internet from this summer. But things just like
putting camera in parliaments do not embody the future politics. What is it to
be “digital” in politics?
2.
How to make crowd of citizens produce
consensus that actually works?
The article points out the limit of crowd politics[1]. Crowd of
citizens are good at tabling proposals and voting on them but not good at hard
negotiation. How to use crowd power to built “a Death star” (=achieve an attractive
but difficult job)?
Summary:
1.
e-petitions（e-請願）success case
Germany
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“LiquidFeedback” è Local people
have developed and submitted recommendations to their councilors via website.
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Finland
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Successful e-petitions brings about a parliamentary vote
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America
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“We the people” è 34,000 people
implored the government to start building a death star and an officer
responded to them.
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2.
Criticism of e-petitions
・Too unambitious /
rarely enable users to discuss issues ore fine-tune their demands
・“Successful
politics is not about finding people who agree with you. It is about making
difficult decisions without killing each other.”
・ The idea of
writing legislation collaboratly using “wiki” software is unsuccessful.
3.
Other ideas to make digital politics
successful
(1) Writing regulation (2) Setting budgeting priorities (3) Revising
constitution to be adopted an open approach (4) Securing transparency (5)
Providing websites and apps (6) Focusing on poor, old and disabled people
[1] I got a related
book “なめらかな社会とその敵” written by 鈴木健. I don’t have read it now but the concept
“Divicracy=dividual democracy(分人民主主義)” sounds
attractive.
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