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Singapore, stating that it managed to transform Singapore from a third world country to a developed economy, and that it successfully fostered loyalty in its citizens towards the country and gave birth to a unique concept of Singaporean citizenship despite a great level of ethnic diversity. In order to develop further Singapore's technocratic system, some thinkers, like Parag Khanna, have proposed for the country to adapt a model of direct technocracy, demanding citizen input in essential matters through online polls, referendums, etc., and asking for a committee of experts to analyze this data to determine the best course of action.
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diversity in their approaches to problem-solving (cognition) is more likely to succeed than groups that do not. She further illustrates her point by employing the example of a New Haven task force made up of private citizens of many careers, politicians, and police who needed to reduce crime on a bridge without lighting, and they all used different aspects of their experiences to discover the solution that was to install solar lamps on the bridge. That solution has proven effective, with not a single mugging reported there since the lamp installation as of
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such as economics, sociology, international relations, and public policy; however, an ordinary voter is hardly specialized enough in any of those fields to make the optimal decision. To address this issue, Christiano proposes a ruling system based on division of political labor, in which citizens set the agenda for political discussions and determine the aims of the society, whereas legislators are in charge of deciding on the means to achieve these aims. For noocrats, transferring the decision-making mechanism to a body of specifically trained, specialized and experienced body is expected to result in superior and more efficient policy outcomes. Recent economic success of some countries that have a sort of noocratic ruling element provides basis for this particular argument in favor of noocracy.
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epistocracy. In the eighth chapter of his book, Brennan posits a system of graduated voting power that gives people more votes based on established levels of education achieved, with the number of additional votes granted to a hypothetical citizen increasing at each level, from turning sixteen to completing high school, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and so forth. Dahl wrote, however, that any democracy that rules over a large group of people must accept and validate "alternative sources of information." Granting the full powers of citizenship based on a system like formal education attainment does not account for the other ways that people can consume information, is the commonly cited argument, and still eschews consideration for the uneducated within a group.
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patterns. Firstly, most of the voters think that the marginal contribution of their vote will not make a difference on election outcomes; therefore, they do not find it useful to inform themselves on political matters. In other terms, due to the required time and effort of acquiring new information, voters rationally prefer to remain ignorant. Moreover, it has been shown that most citizens process political information in deeply biased, partisan, motivated ways rather than in dispassionate, rational ways. This psychological phenomenon causes voters to strongly identify themselves with a certain political group, specifically find evidence to support arguments aligning with their preferred ideological inclinations, and eventually vote with a high level of bias.
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1764:: Give voting rights only to those who prove themselves sufficiently well informed to earn the right to cast a ballot. Test to determine the right to vote. Everyone would be eligible to take the exam, but only those who show mastery of the basic concepts of political science, economics, and sociology would earn permission to vote. To make the test fair, focus the questions on objective topics. To create an incentive, voters who pass the test could receive a $ 1,000 bonus. A citizen who failed the test but wanted to vote could pay a penalty of $ 2,000, similar to a
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1754:epistocracy
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558:Sovereignty
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279:Meritocracy
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2019:"The Laws"
2003:References
1987:Geniocracy
1928:New Yorker
1844:Criticisms
1694:sophocracy
1674:Pythagoras
1433:Superpower
1389:Superstate
1384:Federation
1379:Devolution
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69:newspapers
58:"Noocracy"
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1236:Globalism
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766:Democracy
628:Unitarism
616:Elections
604:Subseries
533:Judiciary
528:Executive
431:Adhocracy
314:Theocracy
269:Feudalism
249:Democracy
99:July 2013
2586:Category
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2378:Synthese
2344:28420501
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2225:Daedalus
2073:15 March
1976:See also
1720:whole".
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1308:Dominion
1037:Legalist
1017:Absolute
1002:Republic
997:Monarchy
869:Noocracy
839:Anocracy
792:Economic
782:Demarchy
656:Ideology
474:doctrine
435:Service
299:Republic
284:Monarchy
264:Federacy
153:Category
133:Politics
1686:in his
1450:Related
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937:Tyranny
797:Liberal
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567:State
444:Civil
148:Index
90:JSTOR
76:books
2560:ISSN
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