Democracy in Crisis | Angela Eagle, Phillip Blond, Carl Miller
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In an age when the public can be so easily manipulated and misled, can we be sure that the people know best?
We all believe in democracy – even Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad claim to abide by majority voting. But in an age when the public can be so easily manipulated and misled, can we be sure that the people know best? Should we constrain democracy and hand ever more authority to experts? Or do we, like Brexit and Donald Trump supporters hoped, need more direct democracy, and for our representatives to be messengers of the people? And finally, how does social media and cybercrime transform democracies?
Research Director of the Demos Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and author of Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab - Carl Miller
Former Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - Angela Eagle
Political theorist and author of Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It - Phillip Blond
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