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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. [13]
(2001, ISBN 0-300-09218-0, among others) is a book by political scientist Robert A. Dahl that discusses seven "undemocratic" elements of the United States Constitution. The book defines "democratic" as alignment with the principle of one person, one vote, also known as majority rule.
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.
Harris defends democracy, has decades of experience in American government, and respects the freedoms and norms that make this country the envy of the world. ... The Today Show. 40 New Year's Eve ...
The Dark Side of Democracy; Democracy and Its Critics; Democracy in America; The Democracy Project; Democracy Realized; Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom; Democracy: The God That Failed; Deterring Democracy; The Dictator's Handbook; Disloyal: A Memoir; Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide; The Disruption of American Democracy
About 2 in 10 Americans say democracy in the U.S. is strong enough to withstand the outcome of the election no matter who wins, while another 2 in 10 believe democracy is already so seriously ...
[40] Since 2016, the United States has been recognized as a flawed democracy in the Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, partially due to increased political polarization. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices the United States were 2023 the 27th most electoral democratic country and 3rd most participatory ...
The United States has seen an ongoing clash between pressure for more freedom and democracy (coming from below) and elite control (coming from above). For instance, the 1960s were a period of significant democratization during which consciousness about minority rights, women's rights, the environment and warfare shifted.