#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Elena Zilliotti. She is an assistant professor of ethics and political philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. And she is the author of the book we're going to talk about today Meritocratic Democracy A Cross Cultural Political. theory. So Doctor Zilliotti, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Hi Ricardo. Thanks for having me here. So let me start by asking you perhaps a general question. So could you start uh could you start by telling us maybe what is the premise of your book and what are some of the main questions that you set out
To tackle that. Yeah. Um so the Premises of the book are um primarily the fact that uh we live in a um global world
uh is much more uh well connected than before And democracy is a global phenomenon. And at the moment we have significant data that uh democracy uh that tells us that democracy is in crisis. So there is a uh huge demand to rethink and to discuss about democracy. And this is a little bit the background, the premises of uh the book. And then the book uh uh tries to tackle uh some uh key fundamental question, both at the methodological level
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