A RADICAL PROPOSAL FOR DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN LARGE SOCIETIES

ABSTRACT It is argued direct democracy is attainable but only in ways that connect to the experiences Scouring Pads of daily life.By modifying existing institutions of governance it is pragmatically possible to achieve a society resembling distant utopias.One proposal is based on the argument that all electoral systems are inherently fraudulent und

The article is focused on early colonial interaction with the Aru Islands, geographically located in southern Maluku, at the easternmost end of the Indian Ocean world.The study examines how relationships were constructed in the course of the seventeenth century, how they were institutionalized and how this engendered forms of hybridity.Moreover, it