In their essay, Erica Dorn and Federico Vaz make the assertion that:
"Current democratic structures designed to be representative of the people cannot adapt to the increasing number of people on the move. As a result, an overwhelming gap exists between the rapidly changing reality of democracies made up of ineligible voters, and the need for inclusive participation in the democratic process."
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/democracy-by-design-and-on-the-move/
How, therefore, can representative democratic structures account for an increasingly mobile demos?
Whatever the forms of government or governance there will be remain a gap in between the government and governed, now the question is how and to what extent we can minimize the gap to mobilize all in the process of democratization. In this regard, to involve ineligible voters participation to make accountable government may not good enough as the eligible voters participation, in many different democratic societies, can not make their government accountable in true sense. On the other hand, the youth are nowadays participating in different kinds of activities to promote democratic culture in a society without voting in elections. Thus it possibly prove both together or individually might not good enough to democratize the society if the government or governance culture allow them to enter such political institutions or process to promote the democracy.
The essay of Dorn and Vaz points to the increasing deficits of static democracy, in terms of the tax state:
(Democracy today is a colonial artefact tied to violent borders. Moreover, it produces an increasing number of non-citizens, unable to participate in democracy where they live. Erica Dorn and Federico Vaz argue that Jean-Paul Gagnon's courageous enquiry into defining the historical landscape of democracy can bring more equity to its current – unjust – paradigm; citation from the source).
Representative democratic structures are therefore designed for the resident tax citizen.
In its sense, digital nomads, for example, are creating gaps for themselves to being possibly more state-free.
The question: So, what can the field of political science learn from design? And, similarly, what can design learn from the practice of democracy? of the mentioned text is in consequence a matter of social engineering, i.e. scientific disciplines may learn from each other by knowledge transfer, but social processes and systems do not emerge by (engineering) design, with respect to evolutionary principles, dear Jean-Paul Gagnon
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. J.Dewey
Dewey believed that a philosopher should not only reflect but also act, both to improve society and to participate in “the living struggles and issues of his age.” His tools: reason, science, pragmatism. His goal: democracy, not only in politics and the economy but also as an ethical ideal, as a way of life.
Democracy is a form of moral and spiritual association that recognizes the contribution that each member can make in his or her particular way to this ethical community. And each of us can contribute to this community since we each only become the individuals we are through our engagement in the institutions and practices of our society.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
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