The proposed technological upgrades to democracy would be trivial to implement by reusing existing open source projects, yet they are unlikely to happen naturally without a powerful catalyst in the form of coherent social demand.
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These changes would be technologically trivial to implement, cutting and pasting ex- isting open source projects. This is quite unlikely to happen naturally, however, with- out a powerful catalyst—coherent social demand.
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
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existing democratic institutions absent organized public pressure
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predictivesupport: arguedopen-source-and-code
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