http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/democratic-realism/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/democratic-realism/#comment-284916 Paul Woodruff Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:26:36 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=27094#comment-284916 I quite agree with Finders that politics in democracy are messy; that was very true of ancient Greece. And I also agree that we should be grateful to Obama for obamacare. And that we should not give up cynically on democracy. Still, our system has major flaws that could be fixed. The lottery is extreme and unlikely to win many adherents. But we can act to reduce the influence of money. And we can mitigate the awkwardness of the two-party system by moving towards proportional representation. There are many forms of this, which prevails in most modern (post WW II) democracies and works well in them I quite agree with Finders that politics in democracy are messy; that was very true of ancient Greece. And I also agree that we should be grateful to Obama for obamacare. And that we should not give up cynically on democracy. Still, our system has major flaws that could be fixed. The lottery is extreme and unlikely to win many adherents. But we can act to reduce the influence of money. And we can mitigate the awkwardness of the two-party system by moving towards proportional representation. There are many forms of this, which prevails in most modern (post WW II) democracies and works well in them

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