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A 2022 Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent of Democrats and Republicans and 66 percent of Independents think American democracy is "in danger of collapse". [ 123 ] Heading toward the 2024 elections, polls indicated that Democrats and Republicans alike had serious concerns about democratic backsliding, though for starkly different ...
In the United States, divided government describes a situation in which one party controls the White House (executive branch), while another party controls one or both houses of the United States Congress (legislative branch). Divided government is seen by different groups as a benefit or as an undesirable product of the model of governance ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an area of the world vital to American interests [1] yet generally entrenched in non-democratic, authoritarian rule, [2] [3] it has been the subject of increasing interest on the part of the American government and democracy promoters, particularly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 ...
The legitimacy of democratic institutions depends on a responsive government that shows up for “people like me.” Joel Day, Ph.D., is managing director of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative ...
Let’s hope the Democratic Party takes a good long look at their lack of credibility on democracy as they process the results of this election and plot a path forward.
The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. It is published annually. [1] In particular, the V-Dem dataset is popular among political scientists and describes the characteristics of political regimes.
And because democracy works, endorsing democracy in 2024 and beyond matters! Over the past days and weeks, the Democratic Party has been having tough conversations about whether Biden should step ...