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What if the voter is fed up with democracy?

What if the voter is fed up with democracy?

Is there a real danger that voters will want to abolish democracy? Or is it mainly a theoretical problem? The history of democracies that gave themselves up.

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Kaj Jalving
Jan 10, 2023
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This series on political toleration focuses on a classical problem, the so-called paradox of toleration. Democracy is a form of political toleration: any party can participate, even parties that many people strongly dislike. The question is: how much room should opponents of toleration be given in a tolerant system. Characteristic of tolerant systems is…

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