Ángela Sierra González is Professor and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies (CEILAM) at the University of La Laguna and former member of the European Parliament. She is also co-editor of La filosofía ante el ocaso de la democracia representativa.
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The reflections of Bryan Caplan and Jason Brennan are part of the “revisionist” current of democracy and its decision-making procedures. This theoretical current tends to reinterpret existing democratic procedures and present them in an unfavourable light, in view of the realities that emerge from the labyrinth of interests at [...]
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Translation:
Apart from the quality of the article, I am left with the end: "Although your criticism of democracy is useful, democracy as a problem remains unresolved." In my opinion, the problem grows and the criticism is becoming ever more unsound ... it only counts the vote (blind, deaf, dumb). A pseudo-democracy is becoming consolidated, each seeing more authoritarian and self-interested. Unfortunately, the decades (and centuries) show that solutions never come from within the "reigning" power at every moment. For me a solution is an external control of power (auditing with real capacity to punish), but that must be imposed, necessarily. An example of this I developed in a personal work (a novated idea), God's algorithm, mainly in the first chapter.Translation:
I think it is a very suggestive article and I agree with the final proposal. Ethics must preside over the behavior of the ruling actors and, in this sense, they form a substantial part of any form of democracy.Translation:
very interesting the article
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