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Curing Democracy’s Vices Requires Cultivating Virtue

Law & Liberty
May 6, 2023
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Tyler Syck in Law & Liberty outlines two responses to democracy’s vices. Institutionalists suggest empowering elitist mechanisms of government, while culturalists suggest inculcating virtue in the citizenry. Syck argues the culturalists are correct – the best democracies are formed through organic local initiative or self-government.

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