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Annoying to whom? The problem with that example is that we don't have, I believe, enough information to really tell what happened. I am not sure, for example, i
by asgard1024 13y ago
Annoying to whom? The problem with that example is that we don't have, I believe, enough information to really tell what happened. I am not sure, for example, if the "voting" on that matter would really pass the scrutiny.
Maybe you could provide a 19th or 20th century example, if those things are so common?
- jacques_chester 13y agoOff the top of my head, I can't think of a true national direct democracy in the modern age. Pretty much all of them eyeballed the ancient greek example and decided to stick to representative democracy. About the closest you get is citizen-initiated referenda. The experience is mixed. Some people reckon it's wonderful in Switzerland. Meanwhile in California, the state budget is unfixable because of previous CIRs.
- asgard1024 13y agoOr maybe they decided to stick with it because it advances their own interest. How very convenient, to teach Ivy League graduates that Ancient Greece can be generalized but modern Switzerland or Iceland (or many U.S. States) are isolated, culturally unique, examples. :-) I haven't read a very good analysis of California yet. What I read about it looks like they got into the trouble because they have both representative and direct systems kind of checkmating each other. Would they prefer strictly one system over another, it wouldn't have happened. There are couple of other U.S. States with similar provisions for semi-direct democracy (which is actually a model I prefer, like in Switzerland), and they don't seem to have quite the same problems as California.