
148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 5/24/2021

From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 5/24/2021
Democracy posits the radical idea that political power and legitimacy should ultimately be found in all of the people, rather than a small group of experts or for that matter arbitrarily-chosen hereditary dynasties. Nevertheless, a good case can be made that the bottom-up and experimental nature of…