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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.
In class we discuss how “republic, not democracy,” has a troubling recent history that goes back to Southern segregationists and the John Birch Society. And we discuss how the U.S. was founded ...
Democracy. Aside from outlawing race-based discrimination and inventing the American education system as we know it, this new wave of Black legislators expanded voting rights and access to the ...
David Van Reybrouck, the author of Against Elections: The Case for Democracy, argues that allocating power through sortition, such as in citizens' assemblies, fixes many of the shortcomings of representative democracy. "Democracy is not government by the best in our society, because such a thing is called an aristocracy, elected or not ...
Inclusive democracy is a political theory and political project that aims for direct democracy in all fields of social life: political democracy in the form of face-to-face assemblies which are confederated, economic democracy in a stateless, moneyless and marketless economy, democracy in the social realm, i.e. self-management in places of work ...
Against Democracy is a book by American political philosopher Jason Brennan.It contains the writer's critical perspectives on democracy, a form of government in which the rights to rule are evenly given to every citizen, and argues for its replacement by the more limiting epistocracy, where such rights are achieved by the knowledgeable.
"We sort of live in two different worlds," in relation to our status as a democracy and republic, Heersink said. "I think a lot of the confusion and debate (is because) the Constitution doesn't ...
Fresno attorney on push to let state legislatures, not the people, decide elections. | Commentary Too many Americans want a dictatorship, not democracy. That fails our national motto