Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Volitusdemokraatia" in Estonian language version.
The idea of delegative democracy was discussed by Marx and Engels (1971) when they wrote about the 1871 Paris uprising and the subsequent establishment of the Paris Commune (see also Carpentier 2011, 28-9). As such, it is not entirely unsurprising to observe that liquid democracy, which is a form of delegative democracy, is being foregrounded today as an alternative way of decision-making by current progressive protest movements such as the Indignados in Spain, the Occupy Movement or Momentum, the left-wing campaigning organisation loyal to Jeremy Corbyn in the UK.
