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<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Holmes, Neville</span> (2002) <xhtml:em>Representative Democracy and the [Computing] Profession.</xhtml:em> Computer, 35 (2). 120, 118-119. ISSN 0018-9162</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_2172' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1683/1/tp2Fb.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_2172' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_2172"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1683/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1683/1/tp2Fb.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />101Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.982928">http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.982928</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">This essay suggests that many "democracies" are only democratic in any serious way in the lead up to an election, being otherwise economocratic, and describes a three-stage reform exploiting digital technology that could go some way to correcting this blemish: one citizen, one parliamentary vote; double representative electorates; and continuous elections.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">This essay has been more formally published as essay 5.5 in the author's book "Computers and People" (Wiley, 2006). This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
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