Democracy Dies in Ineffectiveness with Richard Pildes
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The episode discusses the importance of effective governance in blue cities and its role in preserving liberal democracy with guest Richard Pildes.
Is a return to good, effective governance not just a glaring need in blue cities but a key to saving liberal democracy? NYU law professor Richard “Rick” Pildes is the author of an insightful scholarly article that recently caught our attention titled, “The Neglected Value of Effective Government.” A leading scholar of constitutional law and democratic governance, Rick is a Guggenheim Fellow, Carnegie Scholar and a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. After reading his...
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