Organizational Democracy

From the Associated Press, as printed today in the LA Times and other papers:

‘Authoritarian rulers are violating human rights around the world and getting away with it largely because the U.S., European and other established democracies accept their claims that merely holding elections makes them democratic, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday.

By failing to demand that offenders honor their citizens’ civil and political rights and other tenets of democracy, Western governments risk undermining human rights everywhere, the New York-based international rights watchdog said in its annual review.

Still, in a segment of the report titled “Despots Masquerading as Democrats,” the group’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, wrote that “it is a sign of hope that even dictators have come to believe that the route to legitimacy runs by way of democratic credentials.”‘

Let’s be careful of this trend in business, too.  Voting alone does not rights make.

‘It is time to stop selling democracy on the cheap.’

• Reputation systems
• Jennifer Government
• First draft: Five principles of organizational democracy
• ‘But what is this property?’
• A process of erosion

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