Not Popular Enough
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2021
ISSN
1931-8693
Publisher
Robert Abernethy and Bernard Schwartz
Language
en-us
Abstract
The draft constitution does a nice job of reducing existing institutional obstacles to effective government. Yet there is one persistent manner in which the draft repeats the Framers’ error and, indeed, doubles down on it: by replicating the elitist part of the republican tradition at the expense of the plebeian one. In that sense, the proposal doesn’t do nearly enough to rebuild the frayed bonds between citizen and government. More effective policymaking is the technocrat’s solution, but multiple methods of exercising power is the populist’s response to a metastasizing sense of dislocation.
Recommended Citation
Robert L. Tsai,
Not Popular Enough
,
in
no. 61
Democracy Journal
(2021).
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