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I have an easy time thinking of examples of why direct democracy is an optimal government structure. Switzerland. It has a long history of direct democracy, compare how it has been governed with how the other democracies have been governed.

There's no need to get all abstract when there are real world examples.



It's also a federalist system with unique geography and a smaller population than New York City. Their example might not be portable.

It's worth thinking of different alternatives, rather than generalizing from a sample size of one.

Hong Kong and Singapore are also good examples of well-run states that are completely different. Hong Kong has the same population as Switzerland.


That's a good point, all of those places are tiny places. Still, I'd like to think that Switzerland can be scaled up. As well functioning as Singapore is, I don't want to see that scaled up.




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