The Most Important Issue Voters in Democratic Countries Must Decide

Economic decline, political change, the Butterfly Effect and why the future of democracy may depend on the individual voter

Note: This is a direct British English translation of my original Mongolian article. I have tried to preserve my original ideas, structure and way of thinking as closely as possible.

Looking at world history, economic development and systems of government have always changed together.

To remind readers of my earlier argument, economic decline has often created the conditions for a new system of government, which has then contributed to a new phase of economic development.

The ancient Greeks developed direct democracy by voting on issues with black and white stones in their amphitheatres and making decisions by majority vote. They reduced bureaucracy and developed rapidly, eventually reaching a high point in public and cultural life.

The Romans later created the Senate and developed a representative system of government, with Caesar as the head of the executive.

In the thirteenth century, the Mongols made major decisions through majority voting at the Ikh Khuraldai, an assembly convened to decide matters of national importance. They also established the Ikh Zasag, a comprehensive legal code, which even Chinggis Khan, the head…