Title: Democratic Responsiveness is Impossible in the For/Against Paradigm Author: Balazs Feher-Gavra Affiliation: Independent Scholar Email: balazs.feher.gavra@gmail.com Bio: Balazs Feher-Gavra is a political scientist and data scientist. Formerly focusing on political ideology and biopolitics, his current primary research interest is political theory. In particular, he studies the core processes underlying modern politics such as democratic responsiveness, seeking to understand how they function in different political systems and how they may be improved upon. 1