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March 3, 2026

🦋 Data, power, and the future of democratic theory

Yida Zhai The Science of Democracy 2.0 challenges current uses of the term 'democracy'. Yida Zhai argues that these uses are not universal but culturally specific. This, he says, makes them inadequate for describing the political realities of the human species as a whole Read more

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