Is Democracy Meaningless?

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​What IS democracy??
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The word ‘democracy’ gets thrown around a lot, but everyone seems to mean something different when they say it. What IS democracy? What does it actually mean?

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Special thanks to:
– Danielle Allen, Harvard University
– Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
– Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame
– Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School
– Helena Rosenblatt Dhar, CUNY Graduate Center
– Alice Siu, Stanford University

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— VIDEO CHAPTERS —
00:00 Intro
3:14 Electoral
14:11 Liberal
22:34 Egalitarian
26:00 Participatory
31:14 People are stupid
37:01 Deliberative
44:47 The Cube

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