PARADOXES AND REPRESENTATION

In this essay I try to show how the Ostrogorski Paradox-a relatively n eglected problem in democratic theory-is conceptually related to other conceptual problems (the Anscombe Paradox, the Condorcet Paradox, the intensity problems and the problems arising from logrolling practices ). The Ostrogorski Paradox can appear in all forms of representative d emocracy. However, direct democracy is vulnerable to the other, equall y disturbing, paradoxes. Thus, one influential argument for direct dem ocracy is refuted.