Larry Bartels on How Democracy is Eroding From the Top
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of Democracy Erodes from the Top, Larry Bartels, on why we should blame leaders and not citizens for today’s crisis of democracy.
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Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and (with Christopher H. Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (both Princeton).
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