--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Of course, an idea of democracy that reduces to
> nothing but elections
> is debased. But typically Carrol got carried away
> with his fatalistic
> pronouncement.
>
[WS:] I do not consider that an exaggeration, cf. Arrow's theorem showing that no voting system is capable of transforming individual preferences into collective ones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_theorem
Wojtek
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