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Maximilian Held edited this page Dec 19, 2014 · 1 revision

Loftager

deliberative democracy is the opposite to economic theories of democracy

Ostrom 1990

there appear to be institutional possibilities to solve CPR problems without central authority or property rights, likely when the following variables are given: communication small-scale trust localized physical setting this is actually interesting for my homo economics rant.

Trivilization of democracy

They slice and dice the electorate.

Look at the US to see what's coming up.

Kahnemann/Tversky. The Myth of the Rational Voter.

Liberal, representative democracy, rests on a pluralist theory of governance (Louw 2005:15). Pluralism, being both empirical hypothesis and normative prescription supposes that political power is, and should be widely dispersed among society’s interest groups. These interest groups, made up of ever active citizens, openly compete with one another, thereby preventing any one of them to become a dominant elite.

Joe the Plumber Bittergate

Compared to gun control and abortion rights, the environment is a weakling of an issue. (...). (There,) the devil is in the details and voters don’t like details. (ibid.: 201)

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