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Capitol Hill Citizen 's motto "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight" is intended as a jab at what Politico 's Ian Ward described as the Washington Post 's "self-important motto Democracy Dies in Darkness". [11] The slogan gained renewed attention following the Washington Post 's refusal to endorse a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential ...
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.
November’s election results were heartbreaking to me and so many rural Democrats who were working hard to help our communities. For context, there are 3,143 counties in America.More than 2,500 ...
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
At the core of Keane's book is the author's belief that history is a necessary key for understanding democracy in the present time. Keane's worldwide perspective is an important corrective to the (mainly Western) idea that democracy has one and only distinctive form; one type of model that can be brought as a gift to people with different attitudes and histories.
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of ...
Died: June 8, 1809 (aged 72) ... Adams disagreed with the type of radical democracy promoted by Paine ... The quote "Lead, follow, or get out of the way" is widely ...
After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimated that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century. According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the actions of people working for governments than have died in battle.