With a representative democracy, we have vote -> candidate who supports general policies -> specific policies which gives the "tempering effect" that I th

With a representative democracy, we have vote -> candidate who supports general policies -> specific policies which gives the "tempering effect" that I think you are talking about. However, the step from general to specific is implemented by legislators and therefore, subject to human factors and outside influence. I'm trying to envision a system where something like [1] is used as the actual voting mechanism, but where you'd remove the actual candidates from the picture, and only vote on your general policy preferences. I haven't thought this out completely. I'm not sure how specific policy legislation would result, and I'm not sure if this still be subject to the tyranny of the majority since we could still have the Abandonment of rationality, for example. [1]: https://www.isidewith.com/ https://www.isidewith.com/ edit: I've no idea if such a system has a name, or if the pros and cons of such a system have already been spelled out in literature somewhere.