Papers

The latest version of DSUp papers (which are always works-in-progress) can be found on the company drive via the magic of hypertext links!

The Courage to be Sovereign: Abuse, Love, and the Emotional Transition from Political Helplessness to Voter Sovereignty

A Sprint, not a Marathon: Why We Do Not Have to Fix Human Nature Before We Build Self-Government

The Voters Are Ready, Already! Why Democracy Does Not Have to Wait for Better Citizens

Check it out: Ten Big, Soft, Fluffy Pillows!

The Mortality Burden of the Legacy System: Political determinants of health, chronic powerlessness, preventable policy failure, corruption, war, and conditional comparative predictions about harm reduction

The Wealth-First Trap:Concentrated Legislative Power, False Consciousness, and the Direct Route to Popular Sovereignty

A Detailed Explanation of the Straight-Up Plan (US): How the Claim Your Seat Voting Portal Builds and Operates a Directly-connected Legislature

Election without ‘Elections’:Why legacy elections transfer power — and how Straight-Up elections can use them to delegate responsibility without surrendering sovereignty

Articulated Direct Democracy as Distributed Computation: Network Structure, Signal Fidelity, Error Correction, and the Production of Collective Agency

Recursive Direct Democracy as a Resilient Attractor State:From Geographic Subdivision to Voluntary Association: the Emergence of the Four Structural Parameters of a Fully-realized Democracy, and a Proposed Software Pilot

All the Remaining Arguments: The Objections to Straight-Up Democracy - and Why They Fail

Social Media Madness!

Why Social Media is
the Enemy of Democracy
(Kidding! Not kidding…)

Straight-Up will be Good for Wealth: Legislative Sovereignty, Productive Markets, and the Separation of Private Wealth from Public Power

Participation Burdens and the Natural Supply of Participants:An analysis of civic workload, natural participation, and democratic self-correction in a Directly-connected Legislature

The Straight-Up System: A General Institutional Architecture for Organized Self-Rule at Scale

Democratic Ownership of Law:Legislative Alienation, Political Agency, and Equal Sovereignty

The Regulation Monster—How Underrepresentation Produces Overgovernment: Apportionment, Democratic Bandwidth, and the Case for Recursive Direct Democracy

History is not a Staircase: State Space, Political Transitions, and the Direct Route to Democracy

The Question-Space Test:When a Democratic Model Has Earned Implementation

59 Reasons to be Very, Very Angry about the Legacy System

AI ‘Proclaimer’

We are painfully aware of both the environmental impact of AI, and the danger to self-government posed by AI being controlled by self-interested actors with more power than sense.  

That’s one of the major reasons why we are doing this.  AI should be controlled by the people. Not a small group of people. By humanity, writ large. And we believe the only way that is ever going to happen (before it is too late) is for everyone in the democracy reform space to push hard, altogether, on one targeted effort: voter sovereignty.—without equivocation and without delay.

This site’s content and the articles on Straight-Up Democracy we link to were largely generated using an AI with access to hundreds of pages of knowledge generated over many years while formulating.  They were created to form a Straight-Up Knowledge Base that could then be used as the basis for Ask Tiffany, an AI assistant capable of answering a wide range of questions about the Straight-Up philosophy, system, plan and project. We need to get a lot of people up to speed very quickly, so we are very thankful to have this tool at our disposal. 

If you are one of the Luddites that think AI generated workproduct is inherently tainted, go smash your looms elsewhere–we are using it. 

It’s a brave, new world, people! 

Some of our papers are thought pieces or essays. Others take on the shape and form of academic papers. They are not. While they have all been inspected by human eyes, there is no assurance that the research is comprehensive or that the methodology is completely rigorous.

Of course, we plan to make as many of these papers as we can publication-worthy. That is why we are offering all comers access to them in their earliest drafts. Dig in! Pick them apart! Help us make them stronger!  Just email contact@straightupdemocracy.org to ask for commenting privileges. 

In the meantime, we see the glass half full. The output of this process has been some surprisingly readable and cogent rough drafts that are worthwhile reading. We think you’ll find them useful.  

AI will be with us for the rest of time!  Let’s not hide our heads in the sand. Let’s get on top of it. And again, there is but one way for the citizens of the world to ‘get on top ‘ of AI before we hit the singularity:

Put the Voters in Charge!