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Flattening the curve forwards: The new speed of politics and the new politics of speed

Posted on April 19, 2020May 3, 2020 by Josh Cowls

The slow, deliberative nature of representative democracy seems ill-suited to the urgency of the present moment. Can it survive the new politics of speed?

Read my new blog post on Medium.

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