S5E10: Gashed Hull: A Rational Public: Ben Page and Robert Shapiro
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig
English - November 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsNews government elections money in politics lobbying reform lawrence lessig politics corruption democracy lessig Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.