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In the Texas Lyceum Poll released last month, one finding stopped me cold: Only 37% of Texans strongly agreed with the idea that “Democracy is the best form of government.” Yes, only 37%.
Samuel L. Perry is an American sociologist known for his research on American Christianity, politics, and sexual behavior. [1] He is currently the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. [2]
New efforts in Texas SDS chapters are being made to support the DREAM Act, as well as 2010's May Day. SDS at the University of Houston also participated in the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education, [25] along with SDS chapters nationwide, [26] [27] as well as national anti-war, [28] anti-occupation and Israeli apartheid Week ...
At the large and active University of Texas chapter in Austin, The Rag, an underground newspaper founded by SDS leaders Thorne Dreyer and Carol Neiman has been described as the first underground paper in the country to incorporate the "participatory democracy, community organizing and synthesis of politics and culture that the New Left of the ...
The University of Texas motto is ‘What starts here changes the world.’ After a month on campus that began with an assault on DEI and ended with police crackdowns on protesters, professor ...
And then there was the United States, where the Pew survey found only 34% of respondents believe social media has been good for democracy. In interviews, two first-time candidates in Indiana added ...
In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the ...
In their book, Texas Politics Today 2009-2010, authors Maxwell, Crain, and Santos attribute Texas' traditionally low voter turnout among whites to these influences. [4] But beginning in the early 20th century, voter turnout was dramatically reduced by the state legislature's disenfranchisement of most blacks, and many poor whites and Latinos.