IElection day
It starts with one ballot.
Yours. Once every three years it drops into a box, and in most systems that is where the citizen’s part ends.
Why that is not enough →A Novel Political Doctrine
People’s Politics, Institutionalized.
A Filipino-born doctrine for systemic transformation. It shifts the question from “Who should lead?” to “What system should govern?”, so the people’s voice does not end at the ballot box.
- concepts in the framework
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- volumes in the series
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- introductory ebook
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POLIARCHISM
A Novel Political Doctrine
Volume I · An Introduction
Philips Ferdinand R. Saavedra
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Poliarchism: A Novel Political Doctrine
The five-volume series that follows the assembly from the centre outward, and five companion titles for students, study groups and reformers. The whole series is ₱1,499. Orders by Messenger; Philippine and international readers.
Volume I · 164 pages
An Introduction
Beyond Politics as We Know It
Volume II · 188 pages
Citizenship
Political and Financial Citizenship
Volume III · 212 pages
Participation
The People in the Making of Law
Volume IV · 236 pages
Reform
Systemic Governance Reform
Volume V · 248 pages
The Policratic State
Policracy and the Policratic Reformer
Companion · 72 pages
Policracy
A Primer
Companion · 120 pages
The Policratic Reformer
A Handbook for Changing Systems
Companion · 96 pages
Financial Citizenship
Reading the Public Budget
Companion · 104 pages
Petition, Initiative, Referendum
A Citizen’s Guide
Companion · 88 pages
Questions About Poliarchism
Answers for Students and Study Groups
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Questions worth asking
Governance is too important to leave to election day.
Why does a citizen’s voice so often end at the ballot box?
Elections choose who decides. Poliarchism asks how citizens can keep a lawful part in the deciding.
Read on →Who reads the budget that your taxes pay for?
Financial citizenship: public money is the people’s business, in a form people can read.
Read on →Can citizens propose a law themselves?
Philippine law already allows initiative and referendum. Why are they so rarely used?
Read on →Why do reforms change the faces but not the system?
Systemic governance reform: change the rules and institutions, not only the officials.
Read on →
Follow one voice
Scroll, and watch your vote outlive election day.
IICitizenship
A citizen who reads the budget.
Citizens who understand power and public money, not only on election day.
Political and financial citizenship →IIIParticipation
A voice with standing channels.
Lawful, standing ways for the people to propose, decide and review.
The ways to take part →IVReform
Rules that change, not just faces.
Change to the rules and the system, not only to the faces in office.
Systemic governance reform →VThe State
People’s politics, institutionalized.
A state designed so that people’s participation is part of how it works.
Start here →What is Poliarchism?
A doctrine to be explored, studied, discussed and understood.
Poliarchism is a political doctrine developed by Philips Ferdinand R. Saavedra. Participation that depends on goodwill comes and goes; participation designed into institutions, with defined procedures, records and answers, becomes part of how the state works.
It is offered as a body of ideas open to discussion, research and academic examination, not as a party or a campaign.
Start Here · Discover Poliarchism
Five questions. The framework builds as you go.
Answer each question and the assembly lights another layer, from the people at the centre to the Policratic State.
Three minutes · audio
Listen to the author
Philips Ferdinand R. Saavedra on Beyond Politics as We Know It, Volume I: why Poliarchism rejects personality-driven politics, and what a Policratic State asks of every citizen.
- EarnEarn a living with purpose.
- SaveSave with discipline.
- ProtectProtect your future.
- BuildBuild lasting assets.
Financial citizenship, from Volume I: when citizens are economically secure, the nation becomes structurally reliable.
Beyond Politics as We Know It · the author on Volume I
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