This post is written in response to two articles in the April 13 print edition of The Economist, both under the Leaders section: ‘Israel’s election, Bibi the conjuror’ and ‘Elections in Indonesia,...
The Ripple Effect by EJ Broker
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Treating the Symptoms Doesn’t Cure the Democratic Disease by EJ Broker
Democracy By Coincidence Referenda and recalls are some of the seemingly democratic solutions to the failures of the electoral system or the representatives within it. In the former, the...
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Democracy Itself by EJ Broker
Robert Dahl tried fervently to engage the term polyarchy into the political lexicon. It is safe to say that, outside of political science classrooms, it definitely did not stick. ...