S02-EP 13 Paul Cartledge on democracy ancient and modern: what can we learn from Greeks?

Duration: 1 hour 17 mins
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Description: Democracies ancient and modern: just how far have we come from the ancient Athenian idea of democracy and what can we do to get back to it? Are we still really democracies at all? We speak to classicist and historian Paul Cartledge about what the ancient Greeks meant by democracy and what it should still mean to us. Plus we ask the panel for their views about the current state of democracy in the age of Trump and Brexit: how bad is it? In this bumper final episode we also get their predictions for the US presidential election and the EU referendum.
 
Created: 2016-04-14 09:18
Collection: ELECTION - The Cambridge Politics Podcast
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: POLIS - Cambridge University
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: Trump; democracy; Cambridge; politics; USelection16; Brexit; EU; Referendum; republic; vote; Clinton; Cruz; Sanders; Cameron; Corbyn; Brussels; convention;
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