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A key lesson from #impeachment is that too many of the disciplinary procedures in modern democracies are founded on the assumption that those at the top will enforce an informal code of good conduct. Since this is not true, new ways of organising those procedures are needed 1/
This is not only an issue in the US. It is also at the heart of recent scandals in the UK, for example, where ministers have broken the ministerial code of conduct with impunity because the PM refuses to enforce it 2/
So we need new disciplinary procedures which are designed to withstand the President/Prime Minister/leading politicians acting in either bad faith or a hyper-partisan fashion. 3/
One obvious way of dealing with this issue is simply to remove the decision-making on matters of misconduct from politicians and give it to randomly-selected citizens (just like in a jury trial). 4/
There has been an explosion in the number of people working on democratic innovations to involve randomly-selected citizens in politics recently. But it has almost entirely focused on how this can broaden inputs, so provides little guidance for 'disciplinary' participation 5/
I have sketched some ideas for involving citizens in forms of 'counter-governance'. But the only work directly dealing with this issue (that I can think of) is John McCormick's Machiavellian Democracy. There is scope for a lot more thought on this problem https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1221
