Monday, July 26, 2021

Participatory Democracy needs participants

But what it ends up meaning, is that there are a lot of processes at basically every level of government, that are designed with the idea of a population that wants to participate. But then, when that population doesn’t participate, to paraphrase Cain here, it leaves a void that organized interests flow into. And so, it is then the people who are most organized, who have the money, who can hire lobbyists, who can sign up for everything, and generate the information, who are well organized, who have something on the line, who show up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-jerusalem-demsas.html?smid=url-share

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