Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck

Author:David Van Reybrouck
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473546998
Publisher: Random House

IV

Remedies

THERE IS AN excellent saying often attributed to Gandhi, although in fact it comes from Central Africa: ‘Whatever you do for me but without me, you do to me,’ words that succinctly sum up the tragedy of today’s electoral-representative democracy. Even with the best of intentions, those who govern the people without involving them, govern them in only a limited sense. In the eighteenth century, much of the population was illiterate and large areas of any country inaccessible, practical facts which had to be taken into consideration when the decision was made to hold elections. But is that still the case today?

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