
This is part 5 of my “Achieving True Democracy: A New Breed of Party as Realistic Next Step” articles. Here you can find part 1, the introduction for the article series, and part2, a short description of the idea of the Proxy Party, and part 3, a description of how a party program should look like, and part 4 about finding, prioritizing, and voting on topics. The benefits of the Proxy Party approach are quite obvious. The direct results are massive improvements in the quality of representation of the citizens and the reduction of corruption: Better representation The greatest benefit of the grassroots democratic approach lies in the far better representation: The members are in the driving seat to decide what topics should be tackled. The members are empowered to directly participate in the stages of fact gathering and deliberation. The members can take on the decision and decide about the best solution