How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | + Model | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | 22 independent members elected in constituencies; the whole legislature elects the Premier and ministers by secret ballot and can remove them. | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Inside the assembly through questioning and non-confidence votes; land-claims disputes through arbitration and courts involving Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and Canada. | Brehon judges; sureties (naidm, ráth, aitire); distraint of livestock; ritual fasting against higher-ranking defendants; body-fines and honour-price compensation.Arbitration | |
| How are public goods funded? | Health, education, housing and social services, financed mainly by federal transfers; co-management boards for wildlife and land use. | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | |
| How is AI used? | No specific role for AI in the consensus system. | None; a medieval legal order. | |
| What are the main risks? | Fiscal dependence; weak programmatic accountability without parties; slow Inuit employment; housing and social crises.CLM-0428 | Status-graded and unequal protection, unfree labour, endemic raiding and dynastic war, and vulnerability to a centralising conqueror.CLM-0385 |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.