Garett Jones: belief

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…But in your framework, where the voters can be poorly informed or irrational, isn’t more accountability arguably a bad thing? A place like Singapore, which is quite well run, whatever flaws it may have, has relatively little accountability, in part due to gerrymandering. So why wouldn’t you want the system with less accountability at the margin? I think that even the insiders have a tough time figuring out what’s going on and who’s responsible, and for that reason, having clear patterns of accountability, say, within . . . If corporations want clear lines of accountability so that the people inside can assess the value being created by the 100 or 200 people there, monitoring on a regular basis, then modern democracies of any type must face that problem to a much greater degree. So that’s why I think that the idea of some line of responsibility, some line of who’s in charge is crucial. Is trial by jury a good idea?…

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