While I don't advocate a violent overthrow of government, I can see the need of rethinking how governments work. We definitely have the technology to be able to select a random group from the population of statistical importance. This group could sit much like as in jury duty to listen to arguments one way or another posited by political parties on any particular legislation. For instance take a thousand people to vote on legalizing marijuana - political groups wanting to produce arguments for or against would make presentations to these people. These voters would be anonymously in polling stations around the country watching these presentations.
Spending on government programs could be handled by individual possibly several times per year.
probably on your personal profile on the government website. Alternatively there could be a "Budget_coin" which you would elect to pay into specific departmental "baskets".
For years in Canada there has been a movement of amalgamation with the idea of cost cutting. Much like a marriage where two can live as cheaply as one but it just cost twice as much - I have found that centralizing power in the hands of fewer people is not any more efficient nor effective. Certainly Iceland is a country (roughly 350 thousand) which could quickly adopt a new form of government. While this might be an ideal size of a city state, countries like Norway and Finland (roughly 5 million population) might be fairly close to the optimal size for a "country" (my hypothesis is 3 million or 6 million). I feel countries should no longer be geographically determined (throw out sea to shining sea) but demographically determined.
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