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Larry Bartels on Democracy for Realists
Published 7 years, 6 months ago
Description
Mike talks to Vanderbilt University political scientist Larry Bartels about his book (co-authored with Christopher Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government.
Topics Mike and Larry discuss include:
- identity politics
- tribalism
- the ‘folk theory’ of democracy and why it’s wrong
- inattentive, uninformed, and irrational voters
- if the problem of ‘bad voters’ has been getting worse recently
- if polarization is really such a big deal
- the potential problem of too much democracy
- what we can do to get more responsive government
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