...may be reduced to two : first, general ignorance and incapacity, or, insufficient mental qualities in the controlling body ; secondly, the danger of...welfare of the community. The former of these evils is supposed to be a prevailing defect in popular government ; but representative government appears...

...insufficient mental qualities in the controlling body ; secondly, the danger of its being under the influmce of interests not identical with the general welfare of the community. The former of these evils is supposed to be a prevailing defect in popular government ; but representative government appears...

...in the government, and sharers in the instruction and mental exercise derived from it. The farther illustration of these benefits, as well as of the...prudence of an aristocracy, are thought to contrast most favorably with the vacillation and shortsightedness of even the most qualified democracy. These propositions,...

...not be subject to that influence, which John Stuart Mill regards a& its most positive danger, viz.: the influence of interests not identical with the general welfare of the community. It is one of the great and serious evils that confronts us — this control of legislative bodies by...

...further illustration of these benefits, as well as of the limitations under which they must be aimed at, will be better deferred until we come to speak of...generally supposed that popular government is liable in a gi eater degree than any other. The energy of a monarch, the steadiness and prudence of an aristocracy,...

...yet ready to make social choices for the welfare of all. Two evils of representative government are "first, general ignorance and incapacity, or, to speak...identical with the general welfare of the community" (19:436). He adds, "One of the greatest dangers ... of democracy, as of all other forms of government,...

...further illustration of these benefits, as well as of the limitations under which they must be aimed at, will be better deferred until we come to speak of...The former of these evils, deficiency in high mental quali the hands of some active-minded usurper) through the mental qualifications of a permanent bureaucracy....

...positive evils and dangers of the representative as of every other form of government are twofold: first, general ignorance and incapacity, or, to speak...identical with the general welfare of the community. "¡& Government failure differs from market failure in important ways. Government failure is backed...

...abstracts from the question of whether the act of voting is itself rational. CHAPTER 15 Rent seeking The positive evils and dangers of the representative,...identical with the general welfare of the community. (Italics in original) John Stuart Mill In Chapter 12 we discussed a model of political competition...

...further illustration of these benefits, as well as of the limitations under which they must be aimed at, will be better deferred until we come to speak of...with the vacillation and shortsightedness of even a qualified democracy. These propositions, however, are not by any means so well founded as they at...