> Przeworski’s theory starts from a simple seeming claim: that “democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.” I like this, but a more general point i

> Przeworski’s theory starts from a simple seeming claim: that “democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.” I like this, but a more general point is that at all scales, we need to resolve the tension tension between the singular and the plural, the individual and the group, the `int` and `[int]`. Results vary between Milton Friedman's famous pencil to the devastation of war.