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Truth-telling in the epistemic quagmire of the politico-infotainment complex: Donald Trump Edition

Nicholas Gruen
September 18, 2016September 18, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWci3a0-EKM Pilate said unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them,...
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Deliberative democracy: A sad story

Nicholas Gruen
September 16, 2016
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="447"] What do we want? Deliberative democracy! When do we want it? NOW!![/caption] This story from this larger study speaks for itself, but is...
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Why is our faith in democratic politics collapsing?

Nicholas Gruen
September 13, 2016March 3, 2019
[caption id="attachment_29384" align="alignleft" width="754"] Q: How satisfied are you with the way democracy works in Australia?[/caption] I With democracy now serving the interests of the 1%, the...
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Yes Minister: hilarious, truthful, too good to be true.

Paul Frijters
July 24, 2016
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs] Here at Troppo we have referred to the 'Yes Minister series' many times because of its brilliant commentary on the timeless issues of...
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Power, understanding and knowledge

Nicholas Gruen
July 10, 2016
I'm wondering why the facts and ideas generated in the abstract below aren't higher up the order of proceedings in such things as teaching the economics of...
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Vox pop democracy and the division of cognitive labour

Nicholas Gruen
June 30, 2016July 1, 2016
In the last post,Paul Frijters dismissed my proposal that deliberative democracy mechanisms should have had some role in the Brexit decision. I don’t think sortition makes any sense in...
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If I had a hammer: or Is change we can’t theorise, change we can believe in? Part Two

Nicholas Gruen
January 3, 2016October 27, 2019
This post and its first part are condensed in this blog post at NESTA. “What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that...

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