There are better ways to decide the big issues

• Autores: Niall Firth
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3076, 2016, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Referendum are "a splendid weapon for demagogues and dictators," argued Margaret Thatcher in debate over Britain's place in the EU in 1975. Referendums are the embodiment of direct democracy, which means every citizen gets a vote on an issue. That seems entirely fair, but one argument against them is that they oversimplify complex arguments. They usually frame things in the binary, which is rarely how people see an issue. Here, Firth argues there are better ways to decide the big issues