{"id":1701,"date":"2019-07-23T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:20:40","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/2019\/07\/23\/democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO AND PODCAST: Is democracy better in theory than practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unfiltered: Is democracy better in theory than in practice?\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4KXUKCm9eo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: #605270; color: #fff; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;\"><strong>By Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy,\u00a0 and Niheer Dasandi, Birmingham Fellow in Politics and Development, International Development Department, University of Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cA lot of the issue is around the expectation that democracy will function perfectly, and actually, it\u2019s never going to do that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People often argue that democracy has great advantages in theory, such as elected governments, protecting the rights of the people and the promotion of equality. However, democracy doesn\u2019t always deliver in practice.<\/p>\n<p>In this latest episode of Unfiltered, Professor Nic Cheeseman and Dr Niheer Dasandi, sit down over a cup of coffee and define what democracy means, whether it lives up to its billing and where in places, it has fallen complacent. Drawing on examples from across the world, they discuss the future of democracy and whether, despite its limitations, it is the best option of governance.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen to the full conversation<\/h2>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-1446757\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/206984\/1446757-unfiltered-episode-6-is-democracy-better-in-theory-than-in-practice.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-1446757&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/gov\/cheeseman-nic.aspx\">More about Professor Nic Cheeseman at the University of Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/gov\/dasandi-niheer.aspx\">More about Dr Niheer Dasandi at the University of Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/democracy-in-africa-success-stories-that-have-defied-the-odds-120601\">Read more on The Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/university\/colleges\/socsci\/unfiltered\/index.aspx\">More from the Unfiltered series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/\">Back to Social Sciences Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy,\u00a0 and Niheer Dasandi, Birmingham Fellow in Politics and Development, International Development Department, University of Birmingham \u201cA lot of the issue is around the expectation that democracy will function perfectly, and actually, it\u2019s never going to do that.\u201d People often argue that democracy has great advantages in theory, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/2019\/07\/23\/democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO AND PODCAST: Is democracy better in theory than practice?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unfiltered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}