As much as there's ways that computing could be (and is unevenly) used to increase retail-level government, there are good reasons to continue to include human beings in the governing process. A few notions to look into: * Condorcet voting systems * Mechanism Design Theory * Parliamentary systems Finally, consider strongly the problem of the influence of capital on any system. In the US, there's the issue of campaign…
You could make the development process completely transparent, with input from a wide variety of people, checks and balances etc. and not begin implementing it without plenty of debate, examination etc. The bias is that those who are most interested in the process and/or the most vocal could end up being those with the most influence. But there's no reason not to at least start examining the problem from many angles…
Re: Ask HN: Design a government from scratch, how would it look?
#31Believe it or not, that's the premise of a republican democracy. There's just more prose and less code involved.