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According to Yascha Mounk, "There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office". [ 87 ] In part the phenomenon is international, democracies are struggling in other parts of the world led by the forces of "digital media, cultural change, and economic stagnation ...
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (1996) Morton, F. L. "Sexual Equality and the Family in Tocqueville's Democracy in America," Canadian Journal of Political Science (1984) 17#2 pp. 309–324 in JSTOR; Schleifer, James T. The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America (U of Chicago Press, 2012) Schneck, Stephen.
At the same time, the past three years proved that American democracy was resilient. Former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results failed, blocked by the ...
A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. [2] Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in society and have their sovereign (e.g., their representatives) held ...
More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...
One of the more interesting long-term experiments in the American version of democracy is on the verge of ending, but not before inspiring change elsewhere in the country.
Sanford Levinson argues that next to the fact that campaign financing and gerrymandering are seen as serious problems for democracy, also one of the root causes of the American democratic deficit lies in the United States Constitution itself, [59] for example there is a lack of proportional representation in the Senate for highly populated ...
This spring, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy asked a nationally representative sample in the Notre Dame Health of Democracy Survey whether they believed “people like me ...