Don't be childish, Carrol, you are too old for this sort of old New Left yearning for the New England Town Meeting. There are serious problems with elections, but the particular one cited is addressed by changing the incentive structure, for example, by organizing.
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1) It ignores the collective action/public goods
> > problem that makes it rational for individuals to
> > settle for their their second worst choices in the
> > absence of an incentive structure to make it
> rational
> > to cooperate on getting the best choice;
>
> What it (implicitly) _recognizes, and what none of
> the refuations
> recognize is that elections are simply a stupid way
> to make public
> policy -- and that failure leads to a failure to put
> brain power to work
> figuring out how we can have democracy without
> elections.
>
> Carrol
>
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