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I think Switzerland might be a good model for a proto-panocracy. Do you / does anyone know who the President or prime minister of Switzerland? I don’t think they even have one, just a council of 7. And frequent referenda on anything a sufficient number of citizens want to change, either nationally or within cantons. It would be interesting to find out what effect new technology has had on generating interest and support for a particular referendum proposal. Do they have the equivalent of RFCs for example? Although I think generally referenda are only used for fairly straightforward binary issues such as should women be given the vote (1971). Actually not true - in the same year they had a referendum on the Federal budget

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