Article 3KHNC Referendums and low-engagement voters produce catastrophic outcomes (but what about corruption?)

Referendums and low-engagement voters produce catastrophic outcomes (but what about corruption?)

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#3KHNC)

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The idea of representative democracy is that we pay lawmakers to give serious attention to the nuances of policy questions and cast votes on our behalf in accord with their understanding of our preferences, applied to those nuanced understandings. (more")

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