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Plato believed the ability of common men to vote was not proper for a democracy. The vote of an expert has equal value to the vote of 'an incompetent'. [ 91 ] Jason Brennan believes that the low information voters is a major problem in America and is the main objection to democracies in general because the system does not incentivize being ...
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter is a 2013 book from Stanford University Press by George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin. [1] [2] [3] Somin argues that people are ignorant and irrational about politics and that this creates problems for democracy. He further claims that this consideration argues in ...
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States is a nonfiction book by Erwin Chemerinsky, published by Liveright/Norton. It contains criticism of the Constitution of the United States .
N.C. Central University political science professor Jarvis Hall, pictured at the NCCU School of Education for a News & Observer Under the Dome: Live! podcast recording event on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
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With respect to American democracy, Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America, says: So what is a majority taken as a whole, if not an individual who has opinions and, most often, interests contrary to another individual called the minority.
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