Introducing...What's Wrong With Democracy?

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Introducing...What's Wrong With Democracy?

By the end of this year, countries making up half the world’s population will have held elections. But not all of them will have been free and fair. In ‘What’s Wrong with Democracy?’ Professor Ben Ansell of Oxford University will, with the help of academics, journalists, activists and writers, figure out whether democracy is working and how best to preserve democratic freedoms, equality and rights.

What’s Wrong with Democracy? is produced by Tortoise Media and supported by The Open Society Foundations.

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Host: Professor Ben Ansell

Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume

Editor: Jasper Corbett

Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Ben Ansel and I'm here to tell you about what's wrong with Democracy, my new podcast series for Tortoise Media in partnership with the Open Society Foundations.
0:09.0	Every week on what's wrong with Democracy, I'm joined by insiders from the world of politics
0:14.4	as we explore the issues affecting democracies both near and far and ask whether our fractured body
0:20.1	politic can be put back together.
0:23.2	So far in the series we've looked at disinformation, populism, apathy, authoritarianism, and the role
0:28.9	of institutions in democracies from Rwanda to Sweden.
0:33.0	And in our upcoming episodes, we'll be taking a closer look at political corruption,
0:37.0	how to future-proof our democracies from shocks,
0:40.0	and of course, all things US election, as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris prepare to battle
0:45.7	it out at the ballot box.
0:48.6	Here's a taster of me in conversation with author and academic Norina Hurts, who I spoke to about the rise of populism.
0:55.0	I think the physical communal acts that Populists are delivering are playing a part in their
1:01.6	attraction. They are just delivering a better theatre of community.
1:05.6	It's also the rhetoric. If you start looking at thematic words and phrases, whether you're looking at
1:14.0	res emblem on national
1:15.0	or alternative for Deutschland,
1:17.0	or Trump, what we're seeing in each case
1:19.0	is actually a very similar language
1:21.0	where they're reinforcing words, family, brothers. And also of course you'll
1:26.8	hear them all these words like you the forgotten people, I see you. Make America great again. It's a nostalgia that something has been lost.
1:36.2	To listen, search for what's wrong with democracy wherever you get your podcasts and follow the
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