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-## History
+## Background
 
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docs/mediums/bureaucracy.md

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 **Output:** consistency of service delivery, neutral expertise in the service of popular priorities
 
-## History
+## Background
 
 Perhaps the most famous ancient bureaucracy was that developed in China's Han dynasty (202 BCE - 220 AD), which used expertise in Confucian philosophy as the basis for securing government positions. Other ancient governments developed bureaucratic structures as well.
 

docs/mediums/condorcet.md

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 **Output:** Condorcet winner or circular paradox
 
-## History
+## Background
 
 The Condorcet method takes its name from an early promoter, the 18th-century French mathematician Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, who was the Marquis de Condorcet. The method itself was [first described by Ramon Llull](https://www.math.uni-augsburg.de/htdocs/emeriti/pukelsheim/2001a.html) in 1299. A version of it is used in Robert's Rules of Order, first published in 1876.
 

docs/mediums/delegation.md

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 **Output:** Referendum participants with varying proxy power on each given issue type
 
-## History
+## Background
 
 [Bryan Ford](http://bford.info/2014/11/16/deleg.html):
 

docs/mediums/ownership.md

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 # Ownership
 
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+**Input:** <!-- what is required to use it? -->
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+**Output:** <!-- what results does it produce? -->
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+## Background
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+<!-- brief historical reference points -->
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+## Feedback loops
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+### Sensitivities
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+<!-- what does this medium capture especially well? -->
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+### Oversights
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+<!-- what does this medium overlook? -->
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+## Implementations
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+### Communities
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+<!-- what are some real-world examples in practice? -->
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+### Tools
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+<!-- what software, methodologies, or organizations are available to facilitate implementation -->
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+## Further resources
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+<!-- where should people look first if they want to learn more? -->

docs/mediums/sortition.md

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 **Output:** advisory recommendation or binding decision
 
-## History
+## Background
 
 Sortition was a basic feature of Athenian democracy. During the medieval and early-modern period it was used for governing some Italian city-states, such as Venice and Florence.