User:Matthew.meyers5/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Accountability
 * While this article as a whole is very comprehensive, but it is missing key points on areas of non-electoral accountability. It lists protest, civil society, polling, selectorate, threat of losing power, social norms, and shared interests as forms, but I find that these fail to encompass all of the forms of non-electoral accountability that can exist in open democracy. So far, the Warren, Landemore, and Van Reybrouck would provide important resources but I would hope to find more.

Option 2

 * Single Issue Politics
 * The Single Issue Politics page mostly focuses on single issue voting and single issue candidates, but it has nothing on single issue legislative bodies. I think that adding information about this from Warren's analysis of the British Columbia Citizens assembly,

Option 3

 * Constitution of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
 * This article doesn't really explain any of the provisions of the constitution. It is not much beyond a quote of the preamble and what is sort of like a table of contents for the constitution. It does not say anything about democratic confederalism or any of the specific rights provisions. I am very interested in constitutional design which draws me to this article, but I would have to learn more about the form of government to officially decide that this is the article that I would like to write.

Option 4

 * Citizens Convention for Climate
 * This page covers most of the bureaucracy behind the Citizens Assembly for climate, but it doesn't talk about any of the analysis of it as a citizens assembly. I would cover many of the readings that we would discuss in class and do a survey of the typical analysis of it. I would also go into more detail about the climate proposal and how they specifically reached the agreement with an emphasis on the deliberation and compromise.