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The real threat diminishing our political life isn't a democratic deficit, but the vicious cycle that takes hold as the currency of public goods declines, and the fear and consequent manipulation of the public grows.
Sometime around the millennium the idea that Canada was suffering from a democratic malaise spiked. Whether it was the concentration of power in the Prime Minister's Office, a decades-long decline in voter turnout, or an immovable Senate, the arguments hardly need rehearsing. The idea of a democratic deficit took hold and soon became orthodoxy.
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Democratic deficit a myth, says MacLeod
The real threat diminishing our political life isn't a democratic deficit, but the vicious cycle that takes hold as the currency of public goods declines, and the fear and consequent manipulation of the public grows.
Sometime around the millennium the idea that Canada was suffering from a democratic malaise spiked. Whether it was the concentration of power in the Prime Minister's Office, a decades-long decline in voter turnout, or an immovable Senate, the arguments hardly need rehearsing. The idea of a democratic deficit took hold and soon became orthodoxy.
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