{"id":74,"date":"2009-11-10T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-12-14T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:42:31","slug":"deliberation-or-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/deliberation-or-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliberation or democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems so sensible.\u00a0 A band needs to agree 4 songs for a demo.\u00a0 \u201cLet&#8217;s set up a Google vote \u2013 that will be fair\u201d.\u00a0 A dissenting voice: \u201cI prefer deliberation to democracy \u2013 your views change mine, your vote doesn\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 The result?\u00a0 10 minute later a reaffirming of the likely preferences of pub and party sponsors \u2013 with a restatement of what The Band wants to offer.\u00a0 The vote will now be chosen from a short list of 9, not 30.\u00a0 The options are narrowed but not eliminated through dialogue.\u00a0 There is more energy and commonality. The Lowest Common Denominator receeds\u2026for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems so sensible.\u00a0 A band needs to agree 4 songs for a demo.\u00a0 \u201cLet&#8217;s set up a Google vote \u2013 that will be fair\u201d.\u00a0 A dissenting voice: \u201cI prefer deliberation to democracy \u2013 your views change mine, your vote doesn\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 The result?\u00a0 10 minute later a reaffirming of the likely preferences of pub and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[20,21,16,22,19,18,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}