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In a Pew survey of 27 nations, residents of 21 nations saw more “Good” than “Bad.” But there was a wide difference from place to place. Nigeria and Mexico led the “Good thing” report ...
The Jan. 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the larger effort to overturn the results of the election, have brought new attention to the larger need for political reform — fixing the ...
The number of people willing to consider alternatives to democracy is at a level last seen during the crises of the 1930s. ... Now it seems even more Republicans are getting in line with Trump’s ...
Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'; James Madison extensively studied the historic attempts at and arguments on democracy in his preparation for the Constitutional Convention; and Winston Churchill remarked that "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that ...
With respect to American democracy, Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America, says: So what is a majority taken as a whole, if not an individual who has opinions and, most often, interests contrary to another individual called the minority.
The book focuses on why people make political decisions against their own self-interest, documenting the extent to which people are manipulated by bad-faith actors. [2] In the book, Moscrop argues that democracy is under threat but can be saved, emphasising the need for good process to resolve disagreements. [1]
Two Black men killed by police, 80 hot summers apart, symbolize two of the greatest threats to democracy in 2021: racialized violence by police and racialized voter suppression by public officials.
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.