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Too many Americans are skeptical about and alienated from our democracy, and they are willing to entertain some pretty extreme authoritarian “reforms” as an outlet for that skepticism.
Importantly, he knew that what he said and did mattered, and could have a life or death impact in the real world. Given the central role he had played in the great war that had recently concluded ...
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.
In their 2022 book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Gorski and co-author Samuel Perry, a professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote that white Christian nationalists share a set of common anti-democratic beliefs and principles that "add up to a political vision that ...
Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with ...
James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers that factionalism was a danger to democracy, as it involved groups pushing their interests to the detriment of the national interest. The Founders were largely nonpartisan, and did not think that political parties would play a role in American politics. However, political parties have long been a ...
Reader lauds Mike Murphy and Todd Young as examples of how democracy can work. Others have questions for Senate candidate and Supreme Court concerns. Readers' views: Examples of how democracy can ...