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Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore
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The Anti-Democracy Struggle in the United States
I call it an anti-democratic strain running through the very founding of America and I was thinking as we were talking about this. Alexander Hamilton said that ancient democracies in which people themselves deliberated never possessed one feature of good government. And then there was another one by James Madison who too believed that direct democracies like the assembly in Athens unleashed popular passions over cool deliberative reason. It raises two questions for me is why there was this almost anti-democratic sentiment running through or this skepticism of the people? Is there any truth to that? Do you have when you have the process she is proposing do you have more emotion in less reason and is that necessarily lead to a worse outcome?
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