{"id":330,"date":"2005-10-31T13:01:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-10-31T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T20:01:49","slug":"representative-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/10\/representative-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just browsing around the CIA Factbook <\/a>and came up with some interesting numbers. lets see how this comes out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\tRepresentative Democracy\t<\/caption>\n
\tCountry\t<\/th>\n\tPopulation\t<\/th>\n\tXcameral\t<\/th>\n\t#of Rep in commons\t<\/th>\n\tK Pop\/Rep\t<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\tIreland\t<\/td>\n\t4,015,676\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t166\t<\/td>\n\t24\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tIsreal\t<\/td>\n\t6,276,883\t<\/td>\n\tUni\t<\/td>\n\t120\t<\/td>\n\t52\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tItaly\t<\/td>\n\t58,103,033\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t630\t<\/td>\n\t92\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tUK\t<\/td>\n\t60,441,457\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t646\t<\/td>\n\t94\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tFrance\t<\/td>\n\t60,656,178\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t577\t<\/td>\n\t105\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tCanada\t<\/td>\n\t32,805,041\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t308\t<\/td>\n\t107\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tSouth Africa\t<\/td>\n\t44,344,136\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t400\t<\/td>\n\t111\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tAustralia\t<\/td>\n\t20,090,437\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t150\t<\/td>\n\t134\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tGermany\t<\/td>\n\t82,431,390\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t613\t<\/td>\n\t134\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tMexico\t<\/td>\n\t106,202,903\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t500\t<\/td>\n\t212\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tJapan\t<\/td>\n\t127,417,244\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t480\t<\/td>\n\t265\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tRussia\t<\/td>\n\t143,420,309\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t450\t<\/td>\n\t319\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tBrazil\t<\/td>\n\t186,112,794\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t513\t<\/td>\n\t363\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tEuro Union\t<\/td>\n\t456,953,258\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t732\t<\/td>\n\t624\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tUnited States\t<\/td>\n\t295,734,134\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t435\t<\/td>\n\t680\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\tIndia\t<\/td>\n\t1,080,264,388\t<\/td>\n\tBi\t<\/td>\n\t545\t<\/td>\n\t1982\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Population Numbers are July 2005 estimates. X Cameral refers to how many legislative bodies there are. And I used the number of seats in the lower house for the overall representative number. and the final column notes how many citizens each representative represents, in thousands.<\/p>\n

Interesting to note that Russia, that hotbed of democracy, has fewer citizens per representive than the US. Indeed, all but India have a more representative democracy than the US. And with India pushing 2 million citizens per representative, I don’t know if they will last much longer, as a democracy.<\/p>\n

I threw the European Union in just to see what their numbers look like. The CIA reports that the Euro Parliament doesn’t make the major decisions; that’s for the Council and it is something different.<\/p>\n

Once again, I call to make the US a more representative democracy, and bring us the the point where we have at least 1 representative for every 100,000 citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just browsing around the CIA Factbook and came up with some interesting numbers. lets see how this comes out: Representative Democracy Country Population Xcameral #of Rep in commons K Pop\/Rep Ireland 4,015,676 Bi 166 24 Isreal 6,276,883 Uni 120 52 Italy 58,103,033 Bi 630 92 UK 60,441,457 Bi 646 94 France 60,656,178 Bi … Continue reading Representative Democracy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-5k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}