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We argue that Frey’s proposals are utopian and impractical, focusing on four key issues: the complexity of decision-making; politicians’ and technocrats’ importance in decision making processes; reconciling the geography of political rights in a globalising world; and recognizing how power frames political discourse and outcomes.
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See Lea Raible and Leah Trueblood, ‘The Swiss system of referendums and the impossibility of direct democracy’: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2017/04/04/lea-raible-and-leah-trueblood-the-swiss-system-of-referendums-and-the-impossibility-of-direct-democracy/ (Accessed 13 April 2017).
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Fox, S., Johnston, R. Well-Intentioned Fantasy? A Comment on “Proposals for a Democracy of the Future” by Bruno Frey. Homo Oecon 34, 229–235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41412-017-0048-1
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