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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy

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Is There a Difference Between Slido and the Pledge?

In the k we have this system where people can put petitions to parliament, and if a particular number of signatures goes on the proposal, people agree with it. But i'm not aware of a kind of making any big differences to policy or how the public feels about their relationship with the government. I say because if you are a someone who join in a petition to profi your signature, there's zero, almost zero chance, a negligible chance, that you will actually be consulted to cocreate a solution physically. The initiator may be a receive er foam call or something from the parlimentarian. In our collaboration meetings, all the petitioners get a formal invitation to join on

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