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| Aug 22 at 10:14 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | As opposed to a dictatorship whose purpose is to pass good laws? But good for whom? [And FWTW, the Q wasn't strictly about representative democracy, albeit lobbying mostly is done in that context.] | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:20 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 5, 2020 at 13:46 | comment | added | matt_black | Olson's argument isn't about the purpose of democracy\: it is about particular flaws in specific types of democracy. Yes, democracies can pass bad laws, but that is not their purpose, just a specific pathology (and one that could be minimised). | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 21:19 | history | answered | Chloe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |