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On 10/01/06, Prem Chandavarkar <prem@cnt-semac.com> wrote: > So you have 15% of the electorate on one side, and 4% on the other. The > 11% differential is enough to swing any election and all the politicians > know it. Therefore, democracy is not about majorities and minorities. > It is determined by how the debate coalesces around single cause issues. A referendum would deal with that problem nicely. If your analysis is correct, it seems that all you need is a system that makes it easy for people to bring about referendums. The Swiss have such a system, if I'm not mistaken. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net