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The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.
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 ...
A recent Pew Research survey found Americans nearly evenly divided over whether the American dream still exists. ... Democracy. Free and fair elections. Trump has succeeded enough to know that his ...
Over its 248 years, the United States has developed a more inclusive system of governance. From Morris' perspective, this is because Americans have demanded something closer to pure democracy.
(The American Prospect’s David Dayen and Washington Post’s Jeff Stein have laid out the full history.) As Vought explained it, the Constitution envisioned a president with more control over ...
The American political culture is rooted in the colonial experience and the American Revolution. The colonies were unique within the European world for their (relatively) widespread suffrage which was granted to white male property owners , and the relative power and activity of the elected bodies which they could vote for. [ 30 ]
The election is over. Anyone who has read anything I have written for the last eight years knows that I am appalled by the result. But the people have spoken and a majority of Americans have ...
B) The United States must continue to push forward to promote democracy and freedom in other countries around the world because these efforts make our own country more secure. Democrats chose A over B by 65–32%; Republicans chose A over B by 56% to 39%; independents chose A over B by 67% to 29%. [66]