It is a core idea of the ECG model and consists of the 20 most important elements of life quality, a good life for all or – the common good. A first exercise could consist in composing democratically the „Common Good Product“. This can help people get an idea of what type of questions could be asked. One of these is the instrument of the “Democratic Assembly”, in which the fundamental questions in a particular city, region or country are discussed and voted on by the population.Ī first example of an economic assembly is included as an appendix in the current edition of “Change Everything” by Christian Felber. The initial idea consists of a series of reforms and new rights for the sovereign. The concept of sovereign democracy can be developed step by step over the next years and can then be put into practice. It states that citizens are the sovereign and therefore hold the final say in decisions of national import. In Munich, Germany the people forced the closure of the coal power plant, in Ireland the Citizen Assemblies have proven very effective, and in Iceland, a People’s Constitution has been drawn up by a citizens’ convention.Įconomy for the Common Good has developed the concept of “sovereign democracy”. Brexit and the elections of populists around the globe are symptoms that democracy does not function as many would like it to.

“ Post-democracy” is a field of political science which discusses the crisis state of democracy.

For the common good herman daly