Ironically as it relates to the Burkean dichotomy of delegate v trustee, our deference has built an oligarchy and those oligarchs used populism to mobilize the less informed electorate. We have democracy but it’s buckling. Mature capitalism has the potential to supplant democracy
It’s rare—no country works that way—but the formal term is “direct democracy.” Applies to popular referenda. Also, the common usage of “democracy” is close to the formal poli sci classification. After all, most people refer to the US and UK as democracies, but not Iran, right?
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