Politics
Democracy — A Collective Value of Crowds, and Not Just Collective Wisdom.
Democracy is a puzzle that philosophers and political scientists have been trying to solve for eternity, and a layperson is trying to understand it ever since. Many concoctions of democratic systems have been tried. Some have failed, others survived. Research is not conclusive enough to suggest causative relationships between factors like economic growth, development, and level of democracy or, for that matter, to indicate the effectiveness of democratic systems in general to whether they provide the best decision making for all. Nonetheless, it is worth pursuing on account of having been proven that “democracies can make collectively wiser decisions as compared to non-democracies on average — they are certainly not immune from making decision errors in particular cases.” [1]
The core discussion of this write-up is to suggest that while institutional elements like statutes, judiciary, well-informed public, the distribution mechanism of information across the population, and so on affect the quality of democracy, especially when dealing with a crisis, there also continue to prevail other factors that keep the spirit and hope of democracy alive. What are they — that make democracy so indispensable, despite the problems it is exposed to? I suppose they are a set of values and…
