S23 E1: The Democracy Trap (Ben Ansell)
The Next Big Idea Daily
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The Problem With the European Union
There are lots of ways that you cannot be in the European Union. And so once we got to that situation, it became incredibly hard for politicians to take those options and choose among them. You can end up either with a kind of scorched earth outcome, or if the opposition still have some leaders, you end up with gridlock. I think most of us can sort of intuitively understand that the idea of pure democracy is fictional.
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