Power to the people?
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Most of us have great faith in democracy. Such is this faith that when democratic processes deliver poor results (as many believe occurred in the 2016 US election and the Brexit referendum) we wonder what went wrong and look for answers, rather than questioning democracy itself.
Why this faith in democracy? A popular thought is that democratic governance delivers power to the people and thus issues policies and decisions that are “the will of the peop...
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