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Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." [2] Critics of democracy have often tried to highlight democracy's inconsistencies, paradoxes, and limits by contrasting it with other forms of government, such as epistocracy or lottocracy.
In Seattle last week, he described a phone conversation he’d had with Xi Jinping in which the Chinese leader argued that democracy doesn’t work anymore. Among other things, Xi said, democracy ...
Why ‘democracy is at risk’ ... “Our democracy doesn’t run on its own. It is fueled by people who participate in it,” he said. “It is not hyperbole to say, because you hear often ...
What distinguishes the private system from a government socialist system is the loss part. If an entrepreneur's project doesn't work, he closes it down. If it had been a government project, it would have been expanded, because there is not the discipline of the profit and loss element". [22]
The notion that, in a democracy, the greatest concern is that the majority will tyrannise and exploit diverse smaller interests, has been criticised by Mancur Olson in The Logic of Collective Action, who argues instead that narrow and well organised minorities are more likely to assert their interests over those of the majority. Olson argues ...
If there is an argument against the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, it isn't that such an act would be "undemocratic", writes Thomas L. Knapp.
On Monday, China?s state-owned Global Times published an editorial that casts Trump as proof of democracy's inherent dangers. The Chinese government is now using Donald Trump as proof that ...
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter is a 2013 book from Stanford University Press by George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin. [1] [2] [3] Somin argues that people are ignorant and irrational about politics and that this creates problems for democracy. He further claims that this consideration argues in ...