Yuri Slezkine, Professor at University of California, Berkely and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, talks about his impressions of the "Democracy 2.0: how is popular rule changing?" session of the
13th Annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi.
Slezkine talks about populist movements and political elites in the US and Europe, and explains why he thinks that political parties and the people as a whole support certain candidates and not others during the US election campaign.