In the article from WolrdChanging Blog it talks about Fractal Democracy.
small numbers of people, let's say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these, the group agrees on who represents their group will the best, and these selected persons form together with others who are selected to form the same kind of grouping, and these people then select one out of their group which goes up to the next level, where the same thing happens again. This method of distributing the will of the people is guaranteed to be totally representative, because it is the collective decision which ultimately feeds up to the top level, which irons out all the kinks.
This bottom-up democracy system is like a spreading of innovation. If we look at the hub as the center of the system, it spreads out. However, to look at this in a more critical way, we will realize that the center is not where everything starts. People get together and agree on one person to present the group. The person becomes the hub. It is an emergence process. (There are also interesting discussion between bill and Jamie regarding the question if the state of emergence take place in linked world. I think if we look at the democracy system that's being mentioned, we can see how it's an emergence process along with the hub theory we learned in network. The hub is the pacemaker; however, it is the slim mold that has the strongest trait. In a real democracy system, the hub would be the ant queen. As we all know, the ant queen does not give out orders; however, the system evolves around the person. In a fractal democracy, the hub should not be the real decision maker, the hub should be the a representation of an ultimate goal.
I believe people have different view on democracy; however, I am just expressing my opinion from what I read from the fractal democracy.
