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A wide range of subjects comes to mind when we ask about the connections between democracy and knowledge. For example, how far a democratic government should help advance of knowledge through funding research, or through its copyright and patenting polices, or in myriad other ways. Or, a very different question: how far cultural democracy actually helps or hinders the development of knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge through television and other media.
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Dworkin, R. (2001). Two Conceptions of Democracy. In: Viale, R. (eds) Knowledge and Politics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57564-8_6
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