John Burnheim, Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
In his book Is Democracy Possible? (1985) John Burnheim invented the term "demarchy" to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers. This has striking resemblances to classical democratic ideas, as reported by Thucydides.
Burnheim used to be a Roman Catholicpriest, and presided over St John's, the Catholic college attached to the University.
Australian philosopher JohnBurnheim has invented the term "demarchy" to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
Burnheim decided that the word democracy is so corrupted in meaning that it was better to introduce a different word for his proposed alternative.
Burnheim envisages what he calls "second-order groups" whose sole task would be to adjudicate on procedures for the "first-order groups," which are the ones that actually deal with community issues.
JohnBurnheim, Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
(1985) JohnBurnheim invented the term " demarchy " to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers.
Burnheim used to be a Roman Catholic priest, and presided over St John's, the Catholic college attached to the University.
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