Rethinking Democracy: Would Citizens Do a Better Job than Politicians? (Hélène Landemore)

In this week’s episode, Amol sits down with Yale political
theorist and author of ‘Politics Without Politicians’, Professor
Hélène Landemore, to discuss her argument to revive citizen‑led
governance. She explains why she believes our current electoral
systems fall short of representing the full diversity of the
population and lays out a practical roadmap for what she calls an
“open democracy.”


Hélène also addresses the most common critiques of her approach
and highlights real-world examples of citizen assemblies – how
would they work at scale? Who would (and wouldn’t) be allowed on
them? And what if people simply aren’t interested?


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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before
that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The
Independent.


Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis
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