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Rethinking Representation: Democracy in Crisis?

Rethinking Representation

Democracy in Crisis?

BBC Radio 4 - Rethinking Representation, Democracy in Crisis?

David Runciman explores democracy: is it still fit for purpose in today's UK?

Professor David Runciman asks if the long relationship between our government and the voters has irrevocably broken down.

The crisis around Brexit has revealed limitations in the relationship between representatives and represented. In these three programmes David Runciman explores that relationship -- between MPs and voters -- and looks for ways that democracies can take up the challenges of the present.

In the first of three programmes David Runciman looks at the idea of democracy and the way society has changed in recent decades.

Featuring Daniela Cammack, Patrick Chalmers, Jamie Kelsey Fry, William Hague, Bronwen Maddox, Helen Margetts and Meg Russell.

Producer: Martin Williams

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Factual: Politics

An examination of the idea of representative democracy.

David Runciman takes the Brexit crisis as a starting point for an examination of the idea of representative democracy.

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