A Novel Political Doctrine
People’s Politics, Institutionalized.
Poliarchism proposes that citizens’ participation be built into the institutions of government, so the people’s voice does not end at the ballot box.
- concepts in the framework
- 11
- volumes in the series
- 5
- introductory ebook
- Free
Questions worth asking
Governance is too important to leave to election day.
Why does a citizen’s voice so often end at the ballot box?
Elections choose who decides. Poliarchism asks how citizens can keep a lawful part in the deciding.
Read on →Who reads the budget that your taxes pay for?
Financial citizenship: public money is the people’s business, in a form people can read.
Read on →Can citizens propose a law themselves?
Philippine law already allows initiative and referendum. Why are they so rarely used?
Read on →Why do reforms change the faces but not the system?
Systemic governance reform: change the rules and institutions, not only the officials.
Read on →
What is Poliarchism?
A doctrine to be explored, studied, discussed and understood.
Poliarchism is a political doctrine developed by Philips Ferdinand R. Saavedra. Its central idea is in its tagline: people’s politics, institutionalized. Participation that depends on goodwill comes and goes; participation designed into institutions, with defined procedures, records and answers, becomes part of how the state works.
It is offered as a body of ideas open to discussion, research and academic examination, not as a party or a campaign.
Start Here · Discover Poliarchism
Five questions. The framework builds as you go.
Answer each question and the assembly lights another layer, from the people at the centre to the Policratic State.
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The whole doctrine in one minute, captioned so it works with the sound off.
Most citizens meet politics once every three years: at the ballot box.
Then the doors close until the next election.The five-volume series
Poliarchism: A Novel Political Doctrine
Five volumes that follow the assembly from the centre outward. Read one, or the whole series for ₱1,499.
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- § What Poliarchism is, in plain words
- § The 11 concepts on one page
- § How the five volumes fit together
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