💡 A golden age of democracy

On the power of citizens, with Professor Hélène Landemore

Democracy is having a hard time. Trust in government in the U.S. is at its lowest, and about 40% of Americans believe that the 2020 election was rigged. These are all signs of deep-rooted problems, and democracies around the world are affected.

On top of this, there is the challenge of exponential technologies — a whirlwind of change that threatens to create a small number of winners, and a large number of losers.

In the latest episode of my series Exponentially, I propose that we are at the beginning of a new, golden age of democracy. To dig deeper, I travelled to New York to meet Professor Hélène Landemore, professor of political science at Yale University, and author of Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century.