POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Asteroid Family
28 Oct 2016
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Small groups can get together and elect a representative. Forces community to talk about who to elect. Bishop of ro(cid:373)e (cid:862)pope(cid:863) (12th century: was elected unanimously by the 16 bishops of the roman. 11th century european rulers elected based on unanimity/nu under senior members of of aristocracy: kings of bohemia, hungary, poland, and france, pola(cid:374)d: yste(cid:373) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as (cid:862)li(cid:271)eru(cid:373) veto(cid:863) (cid:894)free veto(cid:895) Picking someone everyone could live with: some problems with this. Could lead to violence between factions trying impose themselves on other sides. Neighbours tried to weaken the system by exploiting their system. Failed unanimity/un, as a result: factions elected their own pope, caused 2/3 popes elected at the same time by each of their factions, caused their proxies to go to war on each other, lottery. System is rare, but like unanimity, they have an ancient pedigree i. e. ancient athens: had direct democracy, representative democracy.
