Joseph Gubbels is a student of political theory focusing on participatory and deliberative democracy and neo-republicanism.
Liberal democracy’s assumption that political parties must compete for votes in the same way that businesses compete for customers is a dangerous trap. It reduces voting to a mere transactional choice and erases the participatory vision of self-governance
Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform reveals his elitist view of governance. He seems to misunderstand that democracy is not about authorizing elite rule, but about enabling popular self-rule.