The Final Countdown [on EU copyright]

It is easy to add over our current system, it is democratic, it respects all institutions. I don't understand why this idea doesn't have more followers.

I tend to believe that, in the US at least, most congressmen are not overtly corrupt; rather, SIGs and political news organizations exert influence by drowning out other, often more reasonable or correct sources of information. A steady stream of meetings with constituents may serve to re-ground politicians in a way that's faster and arguably more genuine than trying to cut through a wall of special-interest noise by throwing up our own wall of special-interest noise, no matter how much wiser we believe our (individual and collective) positions to be.

It also seems a relatively inexpensive strategy to test.

[1] That is, who spend most of their time in non-political activities.

[2] Or your capitol of choice.

Somebody said it. Swiss-style combination of direct and representative democracy. So you can let political parties do their jobs, but there is a corrective measure if they try to sneak in a lwa against the people. In a pure representative democracy, there is absolutely no (practical) way to prevent politiciens to lie during elections but to make an U turn after the elections and to let influential stakeholders literaly purchase laws. There are no "checks and balances" between politicians and people, to a extent that allows the ruling parties literaly team up and form a cartel against the same people who vote them in.

Partial direct democracy. If people think they should have a direct say on something, even if its a swiss style mosque ban, nobody has the right to deny it to them, under no possible justification.