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July 4, 2008
Fourth of July Reading: Is It Time to Reboot Democracy?
Rebooting Democracy: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age, an anthology of 44 relatively short essays, was released at Rebooting the System, the fifth annual conference sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum. You can read the articles online, download a pdf version of the anthology or buy it in paperback from Amazon. Articles of interest include the following:
- Creating Humane Codelaw by Gene Koo
- The Merciful Death of the Freedom of Information Act and the Birth of True Government Transparency: A Short History by Ellen Miller
- Saving America From Its 18th-Century Political System by Jan Frel and Nicco Mele
- Echo Chambers = Democracy by David Weinberger
- Community Information Commons by Harry C. Boyte
- Corruption, Technology and Constitutional Design by Zephyr Teachout
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