21 March 2007
Polls and Democracy
Governing the country according to the latest polling results has wrongly been characterized as an abandonment of responsible leadership. On the contrary, the judicious use of opinion polling techniques is a tool that only recently has become a reliable indicator of the ever-changing attitudes held by members of a democratic society.
Western civilization is more informed than ever before, and its citizens are better educated. Their leaders must constantly monitor their thoughts on the issues of the day if they are to be able to anticipate their desires and clearly anticipate their needs. Moreover, modern advances in IT have made representative forms of democracy less and less efficient. Thus, governing according to opinion polls is a fulfillment of the promise of democracy, not its rejection.
Governing the country according to the latest polling results has wrongly been characterized as an abandonment of responsible leadership. On the contrary, the judicious use of opinion polling techniques is a tool that only recently has become a reliable indicator of the ever-changing attitudes held by members of a democratic society.
Western civilization is more informed than ever before, and its citizens are better educated. Their leaders must constantly monitor their thoughts on the issues of the day if they are to be able to anticipate their desires and clearly anticipate their needs. Moreover, modern advances in IT have made representative forms of democracy less and less efficient. Thus, governing according to opinion polls is a fulfillment of the promise of democracy, not its rejection.
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