>why would people participate? I feel that without a self-interested reason, audience would bias toward process-oriented and highly empathic people who already care for the sake of caring.
My thought is that the "selfish" incentive would be to make impact on an issue you care about. In exchange, you give someone a chance to talk to you about an issue they care deeply about you don't.
The underlying premise is that caring and reasonable people can and do have differences of opinions. The "teeth" is giving access to likely voter will listen and not have a dogmatic position. I for example, would spend an hour to double the my effective voting power.
I have little interest in running for an office, and don't think that politicians are particularly effective about changing the minds of voters. They are tied to a multi-issue platform which is incredibly cumbersome, and disinterests many individuals from the process overall.
>why would people participate? I feel that without a self-interested reason, audience would bias toward process-oriented and highly empathic people who already care for the sake of caring.
My thought is that the "selfish" incentive would be to make impact on an issue you care about. In exchange, you give someone a chance to talk to you about an issue they care deeply about you don't.
The underlying premise is that caring and reasonable people can and do have differences of opinions. The "teeth" is giving access to likely voter will listen and not have a dogmatic position. I for example, would spend an hour to double the my effective voting power.
I have little interest in running for an office, and don't think that politicians are particularly effective about changing the minds of voters. They are tied to a multi-issue platform which is incredibly cumbersome, and disinterests many individuals from the process overall.