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Using ‘Civic Technologies’ to Reinvigorate Democracies
On this episode of Exponentially With Azeem Azhar, Yale’s Hélène Landemore explains new ways to heal faltering political systems.
“Democracy is in crisis, but it’s also ripe for a revolution,” political scientist Hélène Landemore tells Azeem Azhar.
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Despite the threat of misinformation and polarization, technology both new and old might help bring about a new golden age for democracy.
To many, such a statement may seem like the ultimate in optimism amid a world of teetering democracies and ascendant authoritarian states. But in the latest episode of Exponentially With Azeem Azhar, his guest, Yale University Professor and political scientist Hélène Landemore, offers a vision for how democratic decision-making could be rejuvenated.