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? | Supreme leader from the Kim family; Workers' Party of Korea and State Affairs Commission; Supreme People's Assembly elected in single-candidate contests. | 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? | Ministry of State Security, police and party organs; political prison camps and collective punishment; no independent courts. | Balanced briefing materials, trained neutral moderators and competing experts structured disagreement. | |
| How are public goods funded? | Public distribution system of rations, largely collapsed since the 1990s; state-provided housing, schooling and health care allocated partly by songbun; private markets fill gaps. | Privately funded; produced published results, media coverage and a peer-reviewed study. | |
| How is AI used? | None documented in governance. | No AI role. | |
| What are the main risks? | Mass atrocity and repression, chronic food insecurity, succession risk in a hereditary system, and nuclear confrontation. | 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.