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Hello and welcome to Radical.

These are conversations about the deep global trends, the big forces

changing our world, shaping our zeitgeist and really offering you some radical ideas to win the future.

You know, if you heard our episode with James Kanagosur, he's a pollster, of course, he coined the term

red wall and he has dived deep into

public opinion. And you would have got a very clear sense from him that one of the dominant

feelings out there amongst the public, maybe in your mind and your heart too, is that politics

is not working. Democracy just is not delivering for the people as it perhaps used to. And this

week's guest is an academic from Yale University who has given this a huge amount

of thought and who is really at the heart of a global movement to try to revive democracy

through citizen rule.

L.N. Landemore is a professor of political science at Yale University, and she argues that electoral politics is failing, but democracy itself isn't.

And her latest book is called Politics Without Politicians, the case for citizen rule.

And politics without politicians is a very interesting idea, it's counterintuitive, It's pretty radical. And she is laying out a bold alternative

to the way politics is done today.

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