Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
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Episode Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
What we really need to do is recommit to the idea that this is difficult, it is valuable, and in order to keep this valuable, difficult thing going, we need to basically pay the cost of educating ourselves, educating the next generation, the background knowledge and skills that citizens need if they are to continue to govern themselves...
Josiah Ober Support the podcast on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives. Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:49 • What is Democracy? 3:15 • Conditions and Constraints - 20:17 • Classical Democracy - 24:26 • Future of Democracy - 39:21
Key Links The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville and Josiah Ober Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice by Josiah Ober Lean more about Josiah Ober Democracy Paradox Podcast How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy More Episodes from the Podcast More Information Apes of the State created all Music Email the show at jkempf@democracyparadox.com Follow on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast 100 Books on Democracy
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