Nicholas Gruen
Nicholas Gruen
Nicholas Gruen
Engines of Oligarchy: with Hugh Pope
53 minutes Posted May 26, 2023 at 2:23 pm.
Background
Aristotle's View on Elections
How Jury Service Could Work
How elections make us vulnerable to authoritarians
Bringing the shy people out
The pathway to a better system.
Sortition in Florence, Italy
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Show notes
One of my favourite podcasts with journalist, scholar and gentleman Hugh Pope who has just brought to publication a book written by his father in 1990.
But being well ahead of its time, the book was unpublishable. It pursued Aristotle's point that elections installed a governing class and were therefore oligarchic. The institution that democracy represented the people was selection by lot as embodied today in legal juries. If you'd rather watch the video, it's here.