[WikiEN-l] The admin problem

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 21:49:40 UTC 2006


On 3/7/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Obviously, the larger and more contentious the community, the bigger the
> challenge of consensus.  But we cannot undertake such a debate without
> an open analysis of parliamentarianism's defects.  Such a system
> encourages the forming of parties that will promote and protect
> particular policies, and who will be happy to have their POV succeed by
> a bare majority.  It leads to the tyranny of the majority.

Parties generaly require a representive democracy. What we have is
closer to the athian system.


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geni



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