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no bull and the aftermath.

Political scientists assume that democracy is safe when most people think it's functioning

relatively well and when they have a deep commitment to the democratic system and when

politicians who violate some of the most basic rules and norms of democracy don't have

a real, I don't have any real power and have any real public support.

And that just didn't seem to me to be true anymore.

You saw for many decades across North American, Western Europe falling ways of political

participation, deep disenchantment with particular governments, but you also saw something

moving that.

So when a colleague and I were about to first started to look at how people actually

feel about democracy, a lot of people said, you know what, I don't give a lot of importance

living in democracy.

I'm actually quite open to certain or for a ton of terms to democracy and I describe all

of those figures in the book, but what was most worrying for me was that some of these

figures were actually born out in a more concrete way and voting behavior.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast March 10, 2018.

Yasha Monk is a lecturer on government at Harvard University and a senior fellow in the

Political Reform Program at New America.

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