The Challenges of Identifying Political Interest

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They discuss the concept of political interest and the difficulties in identifying it. They explore the preferences and political priorities of the governing class compared to the rest of the population and discuss the potential interventions to include a representative sample of the public in decision-making.

What was media like? How has media changed? In this episode, we talk to Princeton Professor Markus Prior about the architecture of public media, over the period of what he calls "broadcast democracy," and in the period we're living within today. How does that architecture affect the politics that is possible?