#1286 Hugo Drochon: Elites and Democracy

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Yugo Droshung. He is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham. And today we're going to talk about his latest book, Elites and Democracy. So, Doctor Ho Shung, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. And it's a pleasure for me, to be honest, Ricardo. I'm looking forward to discussion. Yeah, likewise.

So I mean uh I think that probably we should start with a few uh definitions here because if I understood it correctly when it comes to democracy, for example, uh the way that you Explore it and perhaps define it in your book. Is different from the way that most people I would say understand it. So could you explain that?

Okay, right right to the heart of the matter, Ricardo. Okay, well then. It's true, yes, when people talk about democracy, what do they have in mind? They have you know, in in kind of definitional terms you talk about sovereignty of the people. or majority rule. And if you want to go a bit further with that, I don't know how For instance, um and uh familiar some of your uh listeners might be or viewers might be with you know we have this

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