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? | Designed and run by federal and Manitoba governments as a research programme; households applied and were paid by a field office. | 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 | Unknown | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Administrative income verification; no participant role in governance. | Balanced briefing materials, trained neutral moderators and competing experts structured disagreement. | Unknown | |
| How are public goods funded? | Federal–provincial funding of income guarantees with 35–75% benefit-reduction rates; produced a research dataset later made public. | Privately funded; produced published results, media coverage and a peer-reviewed study. | Unknown | |
| How is AI used? | No AI role. | No AI role. | Unknown | |
| What are the main risks? | Political termination before analysis; dependence on the governments that launched it; confusion between negative income tax and universal basic income. | Self-selection into attendance; artificial setting; analysis by the method's designers; no institutional uptake. | Unknown |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.