ClubTED presents “Can democracy exist without trust?” by Ivan Krastev

This is the make up session for the Sandy disrupted November event.

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http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ivan_krastev_can_democracy_exist_without_trust.html

Ivan Krastev, a theorist and chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies (http://www.cls-sofia.org/en), in Sofia, Bulgaria, thinks about democracy -- and how to reframe it.

Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forward -- from the cultural revolution of the ‘60s to recent revelations in the field of neuroscience -- has also helped erode trust in the tools of democracy. As he says, "What went right is also what went wrong." Can democracy survive?