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When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)
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Is This a Like Pro-Populism Book?
Rousseau's understanding of democracy is now, I argue, the formative and prevailing understanding of democracy for so many in the West. At its very core, this idea of a hypothetical and ideal popular will that is over and above the actual historical will of the people was informing Biden's speech. He probably has not even read Rousseau. But it's a new notion of democracy that is at its core pretty anti-democratic.
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