When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)
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Trevor Burris: Emily B. Finley, author of the Ideology of Democracy. She argues that criticisms of populism as being anti-democratic are incoherent. We've been under the influence of a Rousseauian understanding of democracy for centuries, she says. The particular wills of individual people very often go against this hypothetical and ideal general will.
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