What is Indirect Competence-based Selection (ICS)?
A system (with the previously defined characteristics) is the basis, while devising different strategies is the responsibility of the leadership. So, the selection of commanding authority is a matter of competence and sincerity rather than changing the basis for personal interests (the process that is dominant in a non-ideal society and which is the driving cause of power struggle in the society). This means that democracy is not the direct selection of the leadership at higher levels by the people at the lower stratification levels of the society, nor the selection of representatives from land-area-based constituencies. To gain a deep knowledge of real democracy, let us consider a model called “Indirect Competence-based Selection” (ICS).
From Power Struggle and Its Prevention.
Indirect Competence-based Selection
The measure as written
In POWER STRUGGLE AND ITS PREVENTION, competence is put before the majority, under "Majority Backing":
Though it is a determining factor in efficiency, it is not always a priority (i.e. where the majority and competence part ways, competence comes first, as discussed under ICS).... (Such acceptance is seen in the willing participation of the people in the model, rather than in a count of votes.)
Under "Command-and-Control system", command descends from level to level, and control ascends through selection:
The control is mainly by the selection of capables at every level on the basis of efficiency and respect level (both are under consideration). (i.e. a leader who loses efficiency or respect is replaced through the same selection by the level below him; this is how control ascends.)
Under "Real Democracy", it sets the basis of that selection:
So, the selection of commanding authority is a matter of competence and sincerity rather than changing the basis for personal interests (the process that is dominant in a non-ideal society and which is the driving cause of power struggle in the society). This means that democracy is not the direct selection of the leadership at higher levels by the people at the lower stratification levels of the society, nor the selection of representatives from land-area-based constituencies.
and under "Indirect Competence-based Selection", it gives the selection and the measure: