In this clip from the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College, encourages a shift toward better partisanship. Our partisanship arises from society's disagreements over the common good and the values that inform it, he says.
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Jun 28 2012
Playing preview to the week ahead, fifteen speakers took to the stage at the opening of the Institute’s 2012 Ideas Festival to share their big ideas on everything from developing moral imaginations to rewarding political risk.
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