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22: Dave Snowden – Complexity, Sensemaking and Entanglement

Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust

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The Future of Democracy

I don't think democracy works on the one person, one vote at the level we run it. Democracy actually evolved for small constituencies where you knew who you were voting for. What happens after the war is the constituencies get too big, so you vote for a party, not for the person. It means safe seats, I mean, in South Wales Labor Party is being flying in middle-class kids from London and they want to in Parliament for far too long. So I've long thought, and yeah, it's like the European election, when before the Bloody English took us out of Europe, sorry, we're blaming the English for that. We need this combination of the citizen jury,

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