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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Saving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time
Description: Alice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work.
In many, perhaps most countries in the West, there is a wide and growing gap between citizens and their political leaders. Governments often fail to deliver on basic aspects of the social contract and voters sometimes respond by endorsing extreme solutions on the right or the left. Populists have not proven any better at delivering what voters want, so anger and frustration increase while democracy suffers. COVID made it worse. On the one hand, most governments in most places gathered...