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  2. American decline - Wikipedia

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    McFaul states that the decline in democracy weakens national security and heavily restrains foreign policy. [33] According to Michael Beckley, the domestic dysfunction in the United States has not meaningfully altered its power in the world. He writes, "This is the paradox of American power: the United States is a divided country, perpetually ...

  3. Politics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States is one of the world's only developed countries where all additional parties have minimal or nonexistent influence and almost no representation at the national and state level. Causes for this mainly focus on the plurality -based first-past-the-post voting system , used in most elections, which encourages strategic voting and ...

  4. Democratic backsliding - Wikipedia

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    Democratic backsliding in the United States has been identified as a trend at the state and national levels in various indices and analyses. Democratic backsliding [ b ] is "a process of regime change towards autocracy that makes the exercise of political power more arbitrary and repressive and that restricts the space for public contestation ...

  5. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) [a] is the common government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, comprising 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district (national capital) of Washington, D.C ...

  6. Democratic backsliding in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Democratic backsliding in the United States has been identified as a trend at the state and national levels in various indices and analyses. Democratic backsliding [ a ] is "a process of regime change towards autocracy that makes the exercise of political power more arbitrary and repressive and that restricts the space for public contestation ...

  7. Explainer-What is a government shutdown and what is the debt ...

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    The president-elect is also urging lawmakers to approve more government borrowing by addressing the nation's debt ceiling before he takes office on Jan. 20. WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN?

  8. American exceptionalism - Wikipedia

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    Some proponents of the theory of American exceptionalism argue that the system and the accompanying distrust of concentrated power prevent the United States from suffering a "tyranny of the majority," preserve a free republican democracy, and allow citizens to live in a locality whose laws reflect those voters' values.

  9. Executions in the US are in decline – but some jurisdictions ...

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    Of the more than 3,100 counties and their equivalents in the United States, just 506 — or 16% — have carried out any executions since 1977, the data shows. And most of those have executed just ...