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| author | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-07-28 21:02:47 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-07-28 21:02:47 +0800 |
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diff --git a/article/democracy-us.html b/article/democracy-us.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62a3e9c --- /dev/null +++ b/article/democracy-us.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> + <head> + <title>Democracy: The US (Unfinished)</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/plain.css" /> + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> + <meta charset="utf-8" /> + </head> + <body class="indent"> + <h1>Democracy: The US Constitution (Unfinished)</h1> + <p> + When people talk about democracies, it's common to think of the US Constitution as the ``defining point of democracy''. While the US is the first modern democracy, its laws is far from perfect. In fact, it may be one of the worst of modern time! I will briefly go through the following. + </p> + + <ul> + <li><a href="#corruption">Corruption</a></li> + <li><a href="#electoral-college">The electoral college</a></li> + <li><a href="#senate">The senate</a></li> + </ul> + + <h2 id="#corruption">Corruption</h2> + + <p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens.pdf">A study shows that ``Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.''</a></p> + + <p> + A near-ideal democracy would have a roughly linear positive correlation between the fraction of voters who support a policy and the possibility of the policy being passed in the legislature. But in the US, the line is flat at about 30%. A representative democracy wouldn't have a perfect correlation, because the general public is unable to be informed on all topics; fluctuations are normal. But <em>a flat line</em> means that the opinions of the people don't matter at all. This does not make sense in any type of democracy. + </p> + + <p> + + </p> + + <h2 id="electoral-college">The Electoral College</h2> + + <div id="footer"> + <hr /> + <p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p> + </div> + </body> +</html> |