I take it you’re saying making things more democratic can make them more powerful because they then have greater legitimacy, right? More decentralised power → large actual power?
I suppose part of my motivation to democratise CEA is that it sort of has that leadership role de facto anyway, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon (because it’s so central). Yet, it lacks legitimacy (i.e. the de jure bit), so a solution is to give it legitimacy.
I guess someone could say, “I don’t want CEA to have more power, and it would have if it were a members society, so I don’t want that to happen”. But that’s not my concern. If anything, what your comments make me think is (1) something like CEA should exist, (2) actual CEA does a pretty good job, (3) nevertheless, there’s something icky about its lack of legitimacy (maybe I’m far more of an instinctive democratic that I thought), (4) adding some democracy stuff would address (3).
I take it you’re saying making things more democratic can make them more powerful because they then have greater legitimacy, right? More decentralised power → large actual power?
I suppose part of my motivation to democratise CEA is that it sort of has that leadership role de facto anyway, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon (because it’s so central). Yet, it lacks legitimacy (i.e. the de jure bit), so a solution is to give it legitimacy.
I guess someone could say, “I don’t want CEA to have more power, and it would have if it were a members society, so I don’t want that to happen”. But that’s not my concern. If anything, what your comments make me think is (1) something like CEA should exist, (2) actual CEA does a pretty good job, (3) nevertheless, there’s something icky about its lack of legitimacy (maybe I’m far more of an instinctive democratic that I thought), (4) adding some democracy stuff would address (3).