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> To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will be at least proportionally represented, right? How this fails is difficult to arri
by pannSun 4y ago
> To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will be at least proportionally represented, right?
How this fails is difficult to arrive at through theory. "Fortunately" we have examples from practice: Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong voters in China, Kurdish voters in Turkey, Kashmir voters in India [1], or Ukrainian voters under the Soviet union, to name a few.
People don't behave as atomic individuals, but as members of groups.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new-status-could-bring-demographic-change-drawing-comparisons-west-bank/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...