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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: People-Centered Justice
Description: Allyson Maynard-Gibson discusses a new way of thinking about how people can find the justice they deserve.
It’s commonplace today to bemoan the erosion of democracy almost everywhere. Seemingly endless polls document citizens’ complaints; even more academic books and papers seek to explain the problem. But maybe we are overthinking this. Maybe the “democracy” problem is at its core a “justice” problem—meaning that because too many people in too many places lack adequate access to justice and cannot resolve basic legal problems that plague them, they have—understandably—begun to doubt democracy itself.
Why is that? What can be...