☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Politics@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoThe Mathematical Danger of Democratic Votingexternal-linkmessage-square3 fedilinkarrow-up11
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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlhexagonhexbear0·1 year agoI think that it does, and there's even a study analyzing many decades of US policy that shows that this is precisely what happens in practice What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it. linkfedilink
I think that it does, and there's even a study analyzing many decades of US policy that shows that this is precisely what happens in practice