It seems to me that this article somewhat overestimates democracy. Democratic institutions are simply mechanisms composed of people that take human behavior as input and produce policy decisions. As long as people's preferences and behavior have any significant influence on the decisions of the dictator Claude, he does not seem fundamentally worse.
It seems to me that this article somewhat overestimates democracy. Democratic institutions are simply mechanisms composed of people that take human behavior as input and produce policy decisions. As long as people's preferences and behavior have any significant influence on the decisions of the dictator Claude, he does not seem fundamentally worse.