Examining Democracy

Five world-leading experts give their perspectives on different aspects of democracy: its meaning in different cultures and in different times, and possible ways to improve the way it works today. Featured are: political scientist John Dunn (University of Cambridge), Karl Gerth, Prof. of Modern Chinese History at UC San Diego, intellectual historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley), classicist/political scientist Josiah Ober (Stanford University), and intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL).