Governance Explorer / Side by side How each model solves the same problems Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
Question Model A Athenian democracy (Classical Athens) AI in government AI-assisted arbitration Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Albania's AI 'minister' Diella Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-syndicalism Approval voting Arbitration Auroville Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík, since 2010) British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2004) Brook Farm Champlain Housing Trust Charter city CityDAO Civic republicanism Commons governance Community land trust Condorcet methods Consociationalism Constitutional political economy Constitutionalism Cooperative ownership Cosmopolitan democracy DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) Decide Madrid and the Consul software (since 2015) Decidim Barcelona Deliberative democracy Deliberative legitimacy Demarchy Democratic confederalism Digital identity Digital statehood Distributism Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Epistocracy Estonia e-Residency Estonian Internet voting (i-voting, since 2005) Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, Ohio) Exit rights Federalism Free Territory (Makhnovshchina), Ukraine Freetown Christiania French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019–2021) Futarchy G1000 Citizens' Summit (Belgium, 2011) Georgism Gitcoin quadratic funding Global citizens' assembly (proposed permanent body) Gross National Happiness (Bhutan) Harberger tax Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois League) Hutterite colonies Icarian communities (Étienne Cabet) Iceland crowdsourced constitution Icelandic Commonwealth (Þjóðveldið) Initiative and referendum Ireland Citizens' Assembly (2016–2018) Iron law of oligarchy Israeli kibbutz movement Italian Regency of Carnaro (Fiume) Justice as fairness Kerala People's Plan Campaign Kleros (decentralised court) Landsgemeinde of Glarus Legislature by lot Liberland Libertarianism Liquid democracy Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) Market anarchism MetaDAO (futarchy on Solana) Metagov Mill's plural voting Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) Mondragon cooperatives Network state New Harmony (Owenite community) Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network Oneida Community Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (since 2010) Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) Paris Commune (1871) Participatory budgeting Participatory economics (parecon) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polyarchy Polycentric law Popular assembly Porto Alegre participatory budgeting Post-labour economy Preston model of community wealth building Project Cybersyn (Chile) Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) Public choice theory Quadratic funding Model B Exit, voice and loyalty AI in government AI-assisted arbitration Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Albania's AI 'minister' Diella Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-syndicalism Approval voting Arbitration Auroville Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík, since 2010) British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2004) Brook Farm Champlain Housing Trust Charter city CityDAO Civic republicanism Commons governance Community land trust Condorcet methods Consociationalism Constitutional political economy Constitutionalism Cooperative ownership Cosmopolitan democracy DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) Decide Madrid and the Consul software (since 2015) Decidim Barcelona Deliberative democracy Deliberative legitimacy Demarchy Democratic confederalism Digital identity Digital statehood Distributism Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Epistocracy Estonia e-Residency Estonian Internet voting (i-voting, since 2005) Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, Ohio) Exit rights Federalism Free Territory (Makhnovshchina), Ukraine Freetown Christiania French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019–2021) Futarchy G1000 Citizens' Summit (Belgium, 2011) Georgism Gitcoin quadratic funding Global citizens' assembly (proposed permanent body) Gross National Happiness (Bhutan) Harberger tax Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois League) Hutterite colonies Icarian communities (Étienne Cabet) Iceland crowdsourced constitution Icelandic Commonwealth (Þjóðveldið) Initiative and referendum Ireland Citizens' Assembly (2016–2018) Iron law of oligarchy Israeli kibbutz movement Italian Regency of Carnaro (Fiume) Justice as fairness Kerala People's Plan Campaign Kleros (decentralised court) Landsgemeinde of Glarus Legislature by lot Liberland Libertarianism Liquid democracy Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) Market anarchism MetaDAO (futarchy on Solana) Metagov Mill's plural voting Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) Mondragon cooperatives Network state New Harmony (Owenite community) Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network Oneida Community Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (since 2010) Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) Paris Commune (1871) Participatory budgeting Participatory economics (parecon) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polyarchy Polycentric law Popular assembly Porto Alegre participatory budgeting Post-labour economy Preston model of community wealth building Project Cybersyn (Chile) Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) Public choice theory Quadratic funding + Model How are decisions made? Assembly of male citizens voted on laws and policy; a Council of 500 chosen by lot prepared its agenda; most offices were filled by lot, generals by election. Popular assembly Sortition / citizens' assembly Unknown How are conflicts resolved? Large citizen juries selected by lot judged cases; ostracism could send a prominent citizen away for ten years without trial. Unknown How are public goods funded? Pay for Assembly, Council and jury service came from public funds; wealthy citizens also financed festivals and warships through liturgies. Unknown How is AI used? No documented AI role. Unknown What are the main risks? Narrow citizen body; swings of opinion and demagoguery in the Assembly; dependence on empire and war; conquest by Macedon. Unknown
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.