At least in continental Europe we didn’t switch to democracy in the sense that we created a system that’s supposed to sum up all individual interests and turn them into public policy.
Neither in theory nor in practice.
The UK never really switched away from being a monarchy but is some form of hybrid.
I haven’t read the founding fathers of the US, so I’m not totally sure about what they wanted. They however created institutions like the supreme court that are at odds with the desire to have the sum of individual interests guide public policy.
If so how would you evaluate it theoretically?
Does the public policy follow the public interest (volonté générale)? Timeless decision theory helps with the details.
And monarchies are not just the absolute rule of a single person. That was a odious feature of them though.
Before Louis XIV there were monarchies that weren’t about the absolute rule of a single person. Local princes held quite a lot of power.
Today you have a bunch of small minority groups who reside in Washington who have quite a lot of political power without being formally elected.
At least in continental Europe we didn’t switch to democracy in the sense that we created a system that’s supposed to sum up all individual interests and turn them into public policy.
Neither in theory nor in practice.
The UK never really switched away from being a monarchy but is some form of hybrid. I haven’t read the founding fathers of the US, so I’m not totally sure about what they wanted. They however created institutions like the supreme court that are at odds with the desire to have the sum of individual interests guide public policy.
Does the public policy follow the public interest (volonté générale)? Timeless decision theory helps with the details.
Before Louis XIV there were monarchies that weren’t about the absolute rule of a single person. Local princes held quite a lot of power. Today you have a bunch of small minority groups who reside in Washington who have quite a lot of political power without being formally elected.