Democratic hierarchy

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A democratic hierarchy is a hierarchy build trough a democratic process.

It consist of a collection of groups on different levels where each group select a representative which represent the group on the next level.

A group on the 1st level will chose a representative which join a group on the 2nd level made up of a number of representatives for groups on the 1st level. Again this 2nd level group select a representative for representing the group on the 3th level and so on.

The size of the groups should be around 12 persons, but a more stable variant can also be build from groups of 12 couples which is represented by a selected couple.

Unlike normal democratic systems the representative is not selected for a fixed amount of time but can be challenged for the post at any time. When someone challenged the representative the group vote between the two for the next representative.

Like in a typical representative democracy it is the representatives duty to make the decisions on behave of the group. A representative will soon be challenged if he doesn't listen to the opinion of the group members but the final decision is still the representatives to make.

[edit] Democratic hierarchy in a business

In a business a democratic hierarchy will be implemented by that the different project teams select a project leader. Then group of project leaders select a department leader and then the departments leaders select a leader for the business.

Because democratic hierarchy promote the need of the majority, a trick is need to sure that need of the business the same as the need of the employees. The trick is to make the employees shareholders of the business, this is typical done by making shares part of the salary.