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I don't consider representative democracy as democracy. In Switzerland people vote quite often (on the internet as well), that's much closer to democracy.
by xiphias 10y ago
I don't consider representative democracy as democracy. In Switzerland people vote quite often (on the internet as well), that's much closer to democracy.
- Veratyr 10y agoRepresentative democracy in one of the more well known forms (America's) is demonstrably an oligarchy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...