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We’re told flattering anecdotes about how elected leaders came to write a bill or introduce a plan.

Usually it's fiction.

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in reply to James M.

@jamesmarshall Thank you. I’m writing a dissertation on this so there will be lots more to come
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

In your dissertation, I recommend that you comment on the contradiction between secret text editing by a politician's staff versus the radical transparency of the Internet epoch.

The Pirate Parties (PP) [1] are a real-world example of national-level political decision-making that claims to be fully transparent (like the Usenet, Debian, Wikipedia).

The biggest success so far is the Czech PP [2].

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_P…
[2] pirati.cz

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