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52 A New Theory of Democracy's Origins (It Wasn't Greece) w/ David Stasavage

Ancient Greece Declassified

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Is Democracy a Ship of State?

In a big place, you need to do something so that people actually feel connected with government. So how can we increase trust? Well, there are various questions about to get into nitty gritty things like local newspapers. We also need to think about ways in which some early democracies thought about how to avoid polarization by having cross-cutting links between between different groups.

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