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Guest Authors posted: "Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. ~ By James Hanley Synopsis: Liberal democracy is viable, but always "

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Liberal Democracy is Viable, But Can We Do Better?

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Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here.

~ By James Hanley

Synopsis: Liberal democracy is viable, but always threatened, both in its liberal aspect and it's democratic aspect, by the inevitable fact that it creates losers. An alternative approach that I call Tiebout democracy creates more winners and fewer losers.  Is it a better approach?

This isn't the post I wanted to write, but writing a popular version of Arrow's Theorem still has me stumped.  And this isn't a completely developed post, but more of an off-the-cuff assemblage of thoughts that have been rolling around in my skull, with lots of echo but not necessarily much coherent pattern.  Take it for what it's worth; i.e., my measly two cents. Read more of this post

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