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Ep 320: South India Would Like to Have a Word

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Athenian Model Is Optimized for Local Maxia

The system is optimized for local maxima and not the global maxima. committees are kind of chosen by random though in the case of the drafting committee but there are entry requirements so they are actually experts in later written all that but they're chosen by random. At every point where a policy doesn't get through it gets devolved down to the next point so you're getting more and more towards direct democracy without many of those rangers coming in third. i often think of like my heroes are really that generation of gochlear, ronade, agar, kar, those guys and I often think of them as liberal in their ends but conservative in their means," he says

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