Voluntaryists can also draw links with a number of prior thinkers, such as the Stoics of ancient Greece. See Carl Watner, “Thinkers and groups of individuals who have contributed significant ideas or major written materials to the radical libertarian tradition,” The Voluntaryist, No. 25, April 1987, pp. 1, 7.
Carl Watner, “The fundamentals of voluntaryism,” The Voluntaryist, No. 40, October 1989, pp. 1, 3.
The Voluntaryist, PO Box 1275, Gramling SC 29348, USA. See also Carl Watner (ed.), I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist 1982- 1999 (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1999), in which most of the articles cited here are reproduced.
Carl Watner, “Voluntaryism and the evolution of industrial standards,” The Voluntaryist, No. 52, October 1991, pp. 1, 4-7; Carl Watner, “The most generous nation on earth: voluntaryism and American philanthropy,” The Voluntaryist, No. 61, April 1993, pp. 1, 3-7; Carl Watner, “`Plunderers of the public revenue’: voluntaryism and the mails,” The Voluntaryist, No. 76, October 1995, pp. 1-7.
Carl Watner, “`Stateless, not lawless’: voluntaryism and arbitration,” The Voluntaryist, No. 84, February 1997, pp. 1-8.
Robert C. Ellickson, Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
Benjamin Ginsberg, The Consequences of Consent: Elections, Citizen Control and Popular Acquiescence (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982); Thomas S. Martin, “Unhinging all government: the defects of political representation,” Our Generation, Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1988, pp. 1- 21; Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (New York: Norton, 1988).
The word “demarchy” was coined by John Burnheim, whose book Is Democracy Possible? The Alternative to Electoral Politics (London: Polity Press, 1985) is the pioneering treatment of the model. See also F. E. Emery, Toward Real Democracy (Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Labour, 1989); Brian Martin, “Democracy without elections,” Social Anarchism, No. 21, 1995, pp. 18-51.
On New England town meetings, see Jane J. Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 1980). I thank Ellen Elster for comments on Norwegian municipalities.
Mogens Herman Hansen, The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles and Ideology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Lyn Carson and Brian Martin, Random Selection in Politics (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999).
