If we imagine that the world is ever going back to the way it was pre COVID-19 it is almost certain it will not. In local governance in Tasmania, we have seen instances of almost incredulous level of bureaucratic dysfunction that cannot be attributed, directly, to the COVID-19 Crisis. Quite simply the crisis exposed it. History always has something to teach us!
The dysfunction has nevertheless, been there in background and while extreme instances have been, and are being, ‘smoothed over’ it is increasingly evident that the ‘elected representative democracy model’ ERDM (AKA indirect democracy) once might have been adequate, increasingly, in local governance at least, its shortfalls are revealing themselves.
ERDM has evolved out of the Roman Republic and has since taken on various machinations to the point that in the Western world in the 20th Century ERDM became the standard to be aspired towards by the dominating ‘world powers’. ... Click here to read more
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