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Switzerland
by cloudie78 1mo ago
Switzerland
- RandomLensman 1mo agoContinuously exercised and on everything as a matter of course? Not all is done via direct democracy there (even though it is the ultimate backstop in a way), it also has representative democracy.
- gls2ro 1mo agoYou cannot compare 10 million people with 450 million people when talking about direct democracy. It cannot be done I think. But if you know a way propose it here. Just saying lets vote directly on everything will put everything on hold until all goes down.
- rescbr 1mo agoDirect democracy doesn't mean everyone votes on everything. At the extreme you could do something like localized e-voting: citizens vote on issues that affect a given geographic radius of where they live. Because the boundaries are purely distance-based, gerrymandering is impossible. Maybe we could have a decaying distance boundary by some measurement like population density or something like it?
- jurgenburgen 1mo agoOr just decentralize power where it makes sense.
- tchalla 1mo agoSwitzerland is also a representative democracy
- petervuto 1mo agoSwitzerland has a very direct form of democracy thanks to its constitutional referendums. If Swiss representatives pass unpopular bullshit like the EU bottle cap rule, their work can be permanently undone by a citizen initiative writing a constitutional resolution overriding said bullshit. This means that the representatives are on a tight leash and would not even attempt to write the unpopular regulations that the EU gets away with. One day you piss off the voters with your poorly conceived cookie law, couple years later there's a line in the constitution saying "no cookie laws" and your hands are tied forever.