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Democracy In Crisis - How A Shift In Approach To Governing Can Find The Solutions We Need with Jeff Miller

Finding Genius Podcast

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Athens - The Athenians' Democracy

Democracy is actually almost a direct transliration of the greek. Two words in greek, demos, which means people, and cratus, which means er. The term we think we see the first instances of it really early on in the fifth century. It seems to appear right around the same time athenian democracy appears. But why would people say that elections are as part of an oligarchy?

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