S5E10: Gashed Hull: A Rational Public: Ben Page and Robert Shapiro

There was a time when the presumption of democracy — that the
people were rational and guided our democracy to reasoned
conclusions — was true. Or tru-ish. In this episode, we speak
with the authors of one of the most important work studying this
relatively healthy period, Ben Page and Robert Shapiro. Their
1992 book — The Rational Public — presented an enormous amount of
evidence demonstrating how democracy worked. We discuss what made
that working possible.