Society · Governance
Absentseat
Represent affected parties who cannot take part, and keep the representation open to correction
Definition
Mechanism
When a decision affects parties who cannot take part, a Role is assigned to represent each of them. The representative states the party's interests explicitly, and the statement stays open to correction by the party or its advocates when they can be reached.
Invariants
- Each absent affected party has a named representative.
- The represented interests are stated explicitly.
- The statement stays open to correction by the party or its advocates.
Risks
Failure modes
Ventriloquism
the representative's own interests are presented as the absent party's.
Token seat
a representative is named but the stated interests never affect the decision.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Assignable contextual function
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference