E2D International

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E2D International

Abbreviation	E2D
Formation	January 1, 2011 (2011-01-01)
Type	International nongovernmental organisation
Legal status	Unregistered
Purpose	Political
Headquarters	Online
Membership	E2D parties and affiliated associations
Main organ	General Assembly
Website	http://e2d-international.org/ (defunct)

E2D International (E2D) was the

remains as the last active party as of November 2020.

Project

To help create and promote parties with only one element in their program:

("a form of democracy in which sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate").

E2D parties were to be politically

and their agenda entirely based on people's decision, determined by means of referendums and initiatives organized by party members and citizens. These organized systems were supposed to allow citizens to vote on propositions of laws submitted by elected members of parliament, but also to propose new laws.

Mission

The mission for Electronic Direct Democracy (E2D) International was:

to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between politically-neutral electronic direct democracy parties around the world.

The E2D Manifesto

The

, amongst others.

Parties

E2D was active in several countries.

Country	Name	Registration status	Member of E2D International	Elected	Voting system
Australia	Online Direct Democracy Party	Inactive	Yes	No	Sovereign[1]
Belgium	Citizens for Direct Democracy	Inactive	Yes	No	—
Canada	Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency / Parti pour la Responsabilisation, la Compétence et la Transparence	Inactive	No	No	Proprietary
Denmark	Direkte Demokrati	Inactive	No	No	—
Hungary	Party of Internet Democracy	Dissolved in 2010	No	No	—
Israel	Hayeshira	No	No	No	—
New Zealand	OurNZ Party	No	No	No	—
Romania	Partidul Romania Online	Inactive	Yes	No	—
Slovenia	Svojpolitik.si	Inactive	Yes	No	—
Spain	Internet Party (Spain)	Inactive	No	No	—
Sweden	Direktdemokraterna	Officially registered	Yes	No	GOV Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine

See also

References

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Further reading

• Orr, A. (2007). Big Business, Big Government or Direct Democracy: Who Should Shape Society? online version
• Gutmann, A. D., Thompson, F. (2004). "Why Deliberative Democracy?", Princeton University Press, Google Books
• ISBN 0-316-86173-1
• Ober, Josiah (1989). Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the People. Princeton
• Ober, Josiah and C. Hendrick (edds) (1996). Demokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern. Princeton
• Raaflaub K. A., Ober J., Wallace R. W. (2007) Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, University of California Press.

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