Election Special

November 6, 2016

First Aired: September 4, 2016

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In this re-broadcast of our special episode from the lead-up to the 2016 election, John and Ken look beyond the horse races at some of the bigger questions raised by our electoral process.

• Do we always have a duty to vote? with Stanford political scientist Emilee Chapman

• Can our democracy survive the amount of money in politics? with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich

• How do we justify the two-party system? with Elaine Kamarck from the Brookings Institution.

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Emilee Chapman, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University


Robert Reich, Former US Labor Secretary


Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution

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