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Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore

Jun 1, 2023

47:36

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Hélène Landemore

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Connection Between Information, Aggregation, and Markets and Democracy

5min

The Importance of Political Knowledge in Participatory Democracy

2min

The Consequences of Co-Governing in the Citizens Assembly

6min

How to Override Human Nature in a Group

2min

The Importance of Random Selection

5min

The Importance of Incentives in Politics

4min

The Importance of Accountability in Assembly Decision Making

4min

Shareholder Democracy Is a Revolution on the Horizon

3min

10.

The Anti-Democracy Struggle in the United States

4min

11.

The Problem With Low Participation in Elections

2min

12.

The Role of Psychology in Decision Making

3min

13.

The Benefits of Random Selection in Corporate Democracy

4min

What if we harnessed the collective wisdom of the crowds and delegated democratic leadership to the masses?

In her book "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century", Yale political scientist Hélène Landemore proposes a radically new vision for "what genuine democratic representation means and how we could open up our narrow electoral institutions to ordinary citizens, including via [what she calls] open mini-publics." Drawing from ancient Athenian democracy of the past and the promise of harnessing digital technologies of the future, she joins Bethany and Luigi to talk through this vision of participatory democracy. They discuss how to best harness human nature for agency and impact, ensure transparency to provide accountability in the face of private vested interests, and ultimately its implications for market capitalism.