The Next Democracy: Reimagining How We Govern Ourselves Through the Power of Data and Markets
Erdem Ovacik
Aug 2025 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Paul Boehmer
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In The Next Democracy, social entrepreneur Erdem Ovacik delivers a startlingly insightful discussion of a new collective governance model based on markets and data that can improve our wellbeing as individuals, and as a society.
The author explains how we can develop the next generation of government that is data-driven, iterative, transparent, and that allows us to decentrally and directly make laws online using prediction markets and delegative voting.
Using the same data and market principles, the author also explores the delivery of public goods. You'll explore how we can assign real value to our public goods, changing the way we think about valuation and budgets for public spending. Filled with case studies, new governance models and frameworks, and key takeaways and summaries of each chapter, you'll also find
● A comprehensive explainer of the challenges caused by a collective inability to protect and deliver public goods
● Discussions of how to develop transparent, decentralized institutions that align private and collective interests to deliver public goods using markets and data
● An exploration of "Merit Democracy," a radically new form of democracy
The author explains how we can develop the next generation of government that is data-driven, iterative, transparent, and that allows us to decentrally and directly make laws online using prediction markets and delegative voting.
Using the same data and market principles, the author also explores the delivery of public goods. You'll explore how we can assign real value to our public goods, changing the way we think about valuation and budgets for public spending. Filled with case studies, new governance models and frameworks, and key takeaways and summaries of each chapter, you'll also find
● A comprehensive explainer of the challenges caused by a collective inability to protect and deliver public goods
● Discussions of how to develop transparent, decentralized institutions that align private and collective interests to deliver public goods using markets and data
● An exploration of "Merit Democracy," a radically new form of democracy
About the author
Erdem Ovacik is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Donkey Republic.
Paul Boehmer attended his first Shakespearean play while in high school; he knew then that he was destined to become the classically trained actor he is today. Graduating with a master's degree, Paul was cast as Hamlet by the very stage actor who inspired his career path. A nod from the Universe he'd chosen aright! Paul has worked on Broadway and extensively in regional theater. Coinciding with another of his passions, sci-fi, Paul has been cast in various roles in many episodes of Star Trek. Paul's love of literature and learning led him by nature to his work as a narrator for audiobooks, his latest endeavour. Paul is married to the love of his life, Offir, and they live in Los Angeles with their two midnight-rambling tomcats, Dread and David.
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