Carnegie Council Podcasts
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Democracy and Its Crisis, with A. C. Grayling
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Oct 31, 2017 at 1:30 pm.
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Representative democracy in the UK has been corrupted by the three B's, says Grayling: blackmail, bullying, and bribery. There are similar problems in the United States. To make things worse, covert persuasion tactics via social media are rampant. Yet we can still make representative democracy work, he says. We need transparency, breaking of the grip of the party machine, and control of the amount of money spent on elections.