Particularly because the "far more efficient" is clearly false (for one compare number of fundamental reforms at all level of government that stick in Switzerland vs. other countries, particularly those with two-party systems). The Swiss system is fairly fine-tuned though and lots of things work smoothly because the direct democratic system exists, not because it is invoked.
But this is really really off topic Simon PS: one thing that confuses non-residents a lot is that for example tax increases in general (gross simplification naturally) are accepted in popular votes here. PPS: mandatory cultural dissonance pointer: Switzerland doesn't even have a head of state in any conventional sense of the word and still is by many metrics one of the most successful countries in the World. Invoking the image that things can't work without a "leader" telling people what to do, tends to get us rolling on the floor with laughter. And that even without going as far as collecting Godwin points. Am 28.10.2014 12:51, schrieb Pieren: > 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 ;-) > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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