How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | A presumption that decisions sit at the lowest competent level, with higher levels required to justify intervention. | Unknown | A stratified random sample of 523 voters deliberated in moderated groups and plenaries and answered questionnaires before and after; no decisions were taken.Sortition / citizens' assembly | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Unknown | Unknown | Balanced briefing materials, trained neutral moderators and competing experts structured disagreement. | |
| How are public goods funded? | Matches the scale of provision to the scale of effects; higher levels step in for spillovers and weak local capacity. | Unknown | Privately funded; produced published results, media coverage and a peer-reviewed study. | |
| How is AI used? | Unknown | Unknown | No AI role. | |
| What are the main risks? | Indeterminacy about which level is competent; local domination; delay on problems that cross borders. | Unknown | Self-selection into attendance; artificial setting; analysis by the method's designers; no institutional uptake. |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.