Co-Intelligent Political and Democratic TheoryFrom the co-intelligence perspective, democratic politics is the activity of human groups, communities and societies co-creating their future together. Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom A Call to Move Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment Empowered Dialogue Can Bring Wisdom to Democracy Using Citizen Deliberative Councils to Make Democracy More Potent and Awake The Common Ground of Peace and Democracy Building a Wise Democracy as Crises Emerge The Evolutionary Role of Citizen Deliberation Feedback, Social Power, and the Evolution of Social Systems Democracy and the evolution of societal intelligence The Challenge of Technology in a Democracy Co-Intelligence and the Holistic Politics of Community Self-Organization Thinking Holistically beyond Politics and Governance Beyond positions: a politics of civic co-creativity A Public Pledge to hear the People's Common Sense Building a Wise Democracy as Crises Emerge For detailed information about this vision of democracy, see Tom Atlee's book The Tao of Democracy For our full annotated list of political articles see: For more ideas and resources regarding wise democracy, see DemocracyInnovations.org Pat & Pat, a view from 2020 (fiction by Tom Atlee, 1996) a futuristic, down-home story about a new, co-intelligent politics. It tells how Patrick and Patricia McFallow become co-mayors of Story City, Iowa, in 2016. During their four-year mayorship they engage thousands of citizens in powerful, empowering conversations about what they want their community to be like and how they can change it. Of course, the community starts changing, brilliantly and fast.
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