Dynamically Distributed Democracy
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Dynamically Distributed Democracy (DDD) uses a social network data structure as a means of a creating a 'holographic' model of the voting behavior of the whole group within any subset of the population that is actively participating in the group's voting process. The algorithm gracefully degrades as user participation wanes. With only one participant, DDD is a tyranny. With everyone participating, DDD is a direct democracy. DDD was developed to remove the necessity for a predetermined representative body in democratic societies.
The general principle of DDD is discussed in:
Rodriguez, M.A., Steinbock, D.J., "Societal-Scale Decision Making Using Social Networks", North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0412047
Implementation specifics for a large-scale social decision making information system is discussed in:
Rodriguez, M.A., "Social Decision Making with Multi-Relational Networks and Grammar-Based Particle Swarms", 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), Track: Collaboration Technology - Social Cognition and Knowledge Creation Using Collaborative Technology, Waikoloa, Hawaii, IEEE Computer Society, LA-UR-06-2139, January 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0609034
