The representation of voters’ opinions by delegates is giving way to the direct expression of opinions by the voters themselves (Nishio’s translation).

Representativeness has given way, to a degree, to representation. --- Audrey Tang Democracy needs to evolve into a real-time system

What is Representativeness? “The nature of ‘representative democracy’ (representative democracy).

  • Historically, in a narrow sense, it means parliamentary democracy as an indirect democracy to direct democracy, but in modern times it also includes presidential democracy and Soviet democracy. representative democracy] in some form, including presidential democracy and Soviet democracy.

  • Democracy, but in a format where the people do not directly submit their opinions, but rather choose who will debate on their behalf.
  • gpt-4.iconThe phrase means that the traditional form of democracy, where elected officials were seen as the main representatives of their constituents’ views, has been complemented or somewhat replaced by a more direct form of representation through social media and digital platforms.
    • (DeepL) The term refers to the fact that traditional forms of democracy, in which elected representatives were seen as the primary representatives of the views of their constituents, have been supplemented or somewhat replaced by more direct forms of representation through social media and digital platforms.
    • In Japanese, “represent” and “express” are very different in nuance.nishio.icon
      • The traditional form of democracy, in which “elected representatives represent the views of their constituents,” is
      • In the form of “direct representation by voters through digital platforms.”
      • It is being replaced to some extent.

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