Democracy in the Digital Age

How We'll Vote and What We'll Vote About

Costa Vayenas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

136 Seiten

2017
Arena Books (Verlag)
978-1-909421-99-8 (ISBN)

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This book addresses the profound change that modern technology has the capacity to make in democracy itself. While very little has changed in the machinery of the representative system since the late 1700s, that arrangement is starting to unravel. The technology by which the people receive their information and make their will known, is being revolutionized. These new technological capabilities are likely to reinforce a powerful development that was already under way: an unprecedented rise in referendums and petitions across the globe. Technology now holds the capacity to transfer more power directly to the people, including on the allimportant questions of how the state taxes and spends. This book has been written by an experienced analyst who worked in the financial centres in London, New York and Zurich. His research is based on a careful analysis of the data and a deep understanding of the likely financial consequences of these trends. It is by drawing on the evidence from diverse fields - politics, economics, finance and information technology - and by describing that evidence in laymen's terms, that this book unlocks original insights into where these trends might be leading.

Costa Vayenas lives in Switzerland, where ordinary citizens are called upon to be legislators. He has voted in over 200 legislative proposals at all three levels of government: local, cantonal and federal. The insights he gained from this process have been useful as a sovereign credit analyst. He was a member of the Working Group on Crisis Prevention and Crisis Resolution at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, D.C. He is the editor an 800-page book on the emerging markets (Bloomsbury). He was Head of Research for the emerging markets at UBS, and has worked as an analyst in London, New York and Zurich. One of his reports was cited in The Financial Times as having triggered a currency crisis. Another of his reports featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal under "What's News". He has lectured on international finance at the University of Zurich, at its Institute of Banking and Finance and at the MBA course of the University of Bern-Rochester. He has been a guest lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It was an invitation to speak at the latter's Institute of Science, Technology and Policy that was the trigger for this book, which describes how democracy is being disrupted by digitalization and the profound consequences of that disruption.

Preface ix; Foreword xi; Introduction xiii; Chapter 1. A Technological challenge to the founding fathers 1; Chapter 2. Technology and new freedoms 12; Chapter 3. The evolution from who to how and what 21; Chapter 4. A Real-time knowledge and real-time power 35; Chapter 5. Democratic digits and the redistribution of wealth 48; Chapter 6. Shining lights on other hills 63; Chapter 7. The new hybrid model 74; Concluding thoughts: Drivers and scenarios 91; Notes 96; Index 115.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	6 diagrams
Verlagsort	Bury St Edmunds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-909421-99-5 / 1909421995
ISBN-13	978-1-909421-99-8 / 9781909421998
Zustand	Neuware