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Representative democracy
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying representative-democracy. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3709041-022 : Representative democracies in the early 2020s were slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their legal systems, with change typically depending on the
- 3709041-023 : A blockchain based microdemocracy's key advantage is speed of change: because technology enables incorruptible instantaneous counting and tallying of votes, voting becomes dynamic and incremental and
- 3782214-037 : Without the ability to hold representatives to account, representatives are not incentivized to vote for outcomes reflecting their constituency's wishes and needs, but instead promote agendas that ser
- 3808867-012 : Delegating one's vote to a third party whose ethics and belief system the voter does not truly know produces suboptimal outcomes, and delegated voting on issues that cannot be foreseen is corrupting.
- 3808867-013 : Elected representatives are incentivized to maintain their own power of office rather than to vote for outcomes reflecting the presumptive wishes and needs of their constituents.
- 3808867-014 : Ex ante remedies for the downsides of representative democracy were not technologically possible when democratic representation was designed, so its downsides such as corruption, bribery, and bias had