Rethinking Democracy: Would Citizens Do a Better Job than Politicians? (H茅l猫ne Landemore)
H茅l猫ne Landemore argues that traditional electoral systems fail to represent society fairly and proposes a radical alternative.
In this week鈥檚 episode, Amol sits down with Yale political theorist and author of 鈥楶olitics Without Politicians鈥�, Professor H茅l猫ne Landemore, to discuss her argument to revive citizen鈥憀ed governance. She explains why she believes our current electoral systems fall short of representing the full diversity of the population and lays out a practical roadmap for what she calls an 鈥渙pen democracy.鈥�
H茅l猫ne also addresses the most common critiques of her approach and highlights real-world examples of citizen assemblies 鈥� how would they work at scale? Who would (and wouldn鈥檛) be allowed on them? And what if people simply aren鈥檛 interested?
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