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January 25, 2010

'Stealth Democracy'

Ezra Klein - 'Stealth Democracy'  quotes from the abstract of the book, Stealth Democracy:
Contrary to the prevailing view that people want greater involvement in politics, most citizens do not care about most policies and therefore are content to turn over decision-making authority to someone else. People’s wish for the political system is that decision makers be empathetic and, especially, non-self-interested, not that they be responsive and accountable to the people’s largely nonexistent policy preferences or, even worse, that the people be obligated to participate directly in decision making.

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