Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case

What we really need to do is recommit to the idea that this is difficult, it is valuable, and in order to keep this valuable, difficult thing going, we need to basically pay the cost of educating ourselves, educating the next generation, the background knowledge and skills that citizens need if they are to continue to govern themselves...
Josiah Ober

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com (wp.me/pavhaU-2y4).

Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691218…).

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:49
• What is Democracy? 3:15
• Conditions and Constraints - 20:17
• Classical Democracy - 24:26
• Future of Democracy - 39:21
Key Links

The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691218…) by Brook Manville and Josiah Ober

Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (cambridge.org/core/books/demopolis/0382F4E6E1F…) by Josiah Ober

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