How many votes did it take to elect your councillor in the 2011 Catalan municipals?
The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?
Tag: democracy
Counting the corrupt
A numerate, corrupt mayor, some innumerate anti-corruption campaigners, and de Tocqueville.
Why less democracy is better for Europe
Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.
Chop up those gift-bearing Catalans
Scratch a libertarian and you’ll discover a totalitarian, so keep scratching.