Having read this I’m still unclear what the benefit of your restructuring of CEA is. It’s not a decentralising move (if anything it seems like the opposite to me); it might be a legitimising move, but is lack of legitimacy an actual problem that we have?
The main other difference I can see is that it might make CEA more populist in the sense of following the will of the members of the movement more. Maybe I’m as much of an instinctive technocrat as you are a democrat, but it seems far from clear to me that that would be good. Nor that it solves a problem we actually have.
I think the standard arguments for democratic membership associations apply. Increases in: membership engagement, perspective diversity, legitimacy and trust (from POV of members), accountability, transparency, and perhaps also stability (less reliant on individual personalities).
Having read this I’m still unclear what the benefit of your restructuring of CEA is. It’s not a decentralising move (if anything it seems like the opposite to me); it might be a legitimising move, but is lack of legitimacy an actual problem that we have?
The main other difference I can see is that it might make CEA more populist in the sense of following the will of the members of the movement more. Maybe I’m as much of an instinctive technocrat as you are a democrat, but it seems far from clear to me that that would be good. Nor that it solves a problem we actually have.
I think the standard arguments for democratic membership associations apply. Increases in: membership engagement, perspective diversity, legitimacy and trust (from POV of members), accountability, transparency, and perhaps also stability (less reliant on individual personalities).