On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson > <kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Direct democracy is cumbersome and often lacks nuance, > > which is why it's so infrequently used. Representative democracies and > their > > ilk are far more common simply because they are far more efficient.
Ouch. Never say that to our swiss friends ;-) Having just talked this through with my Swiss coworker, I will concede that that was a very US-centric view of political process :-) I'll amend my statement to include the caveat that that's my certainly culturally-biased opinion of what makes for "efficient" political process. (To be fair to myself, I did study comparative politics, albeit at a US university) Thanks for keeping me honest ;-)
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