An Alternative Polity

Harrie de Swart () and Stefan Wintein ()
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Harrie de Swart: Tilburg University
Stefan Wintein: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter Chapter 6 in Elections and Fair Division, 2025, pp 131-148 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In practically all western countries one may observe that the government and its agencies do not function properly and even seem to be hostile towards its citizens. What is immediately evident from the outside is that the ministers and politicians are seldomly qualified for the ministry they are supposed to manage, that in most cases they do not have a proper beta education and that frequently they have never worked in real life such as industry, small or big business. Usually, they are only bureaucrats who try to make a career in the administrative circuit, in which they never have to think about the question who pays the bill of their decisions. But there are many more reasons why democracy in western countries is in big trouble. In the first section we shall point out a number of weak aspects of western democracies. In the next section we shall introduce an alternative polity which is due to Rients Hofstra (Een Alternatief Staatsbestel. https://alternatiefstaatsbestel.nl/ ), with the intention to make western democracies really democratic again. This chapter is co-authored by Rients Hofstra, in particular Sect. 6.2.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-06010-5_6

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