Here’s quite an old link I stumbled across while googling something else. It doesn’t do to only link to very new posts, does it? “I don’t believe the intention is to destabilise democracy but that is the effect in many communities where the coverage of local politics has been downgraded by a loss of experienced [...]
Posts on ‘November 20th, 2008’
Do voters choose their representatives wisely?
Here’s a really good post that superimposes the work of Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill onto the John Sergeant / Strictly Come Dancing débâcle. Chris asks: Do we necessarily pick the best people as elected representatives? Is this a bad thing? Chris concludes that it shouldn’t be a bad thing, but that our [...]
MPs websites – politics on the rates?
As there are a couple of good posts in the mainstream political blogosphere touching upon the qualities that are needed to promote an effective representative democracy, today is a good day to start a blog on the subject. This post will focus on the most topical: Both Puffbox and Spartakan are chewing over the fact [...]
