Abstract
Displacement theory attempts to explain how an individual comes to terms between "disagreement with a liked candidate and agreement with a disliked candidate."According to Gran berg people "distort the candidate's position in the direction of their own attitude. 'When voters dealt with specific policies for the future, they node little connection between their vote for Ronald Reagan and their issue preferences. Such apparently dysfunctional reasoning could be avoided by the direct democratic model, because the representational vote and the issue votes are divided, enabling a voter to favor a candidate's character and personality as well as voting for or against Bills, as the individual sees fit. The nature of the representational system leads to this type of dysfunctional reasoning because the voter is forced to prioritize candidate and policy when casting a single vote. Judging character and personality is more intuitive and happens without effort. The individual can judge and re-judge according to manner of speaking, tone, intonation and body language. These are all valuable assessments and key elements to leadership; but, as a result of television and the lack of personal responsibility for policy decisions, this kind of judgment can predominate. A direct democratic system can balance these two assessments.
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