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CASBS Board Member on Modern Misconceptions of Democracy

CASBS Board Member, Josiah Ober, a Stanford Classics and Political Science Professor, draws on political theory, game theory, and the classical Athenian definition of democracy to argue that contemporary expectations of the transformative power of democracy may be unrealistic.

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