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causal claim

The speaker says that when power is diffused among many groups and no group can act independently, a democratic arrangement requiring coalitions tends to emerge.

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“You tend to get more of a diffusion of power democracy where there are many different groups and none of them can really act on their own, and so they all have to form a coalition with each other. I think we are expecting,”
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