​Week 8: Essays on Democracy--Videos

1. Minute Videos: Democracy – A Short Introduction [Origins of democracy and its definition] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jgWxkbR7A

2. Civics Academy: What are the Key Features of a Democracy? [Six criterial characteristics of democracies] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-getj3JX8

3. The School of Life: Why Socrates Hated Democracy [Slippage between democracy and demagoguery]   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBzhcSWTk

4. Al Jazeera: Development or Democracy [Which aspects of democracy facilitate development] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDE8G6rLwUU

5. Our World in Data: Democracy [Very useful data visualisations] https://ourworldindata.org/democracy