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.
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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