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At the heart of his critique were how democracy failed "in the search for truth" and how leaders and citizens attempted "to impose their own speech-dependent meanings on reality". [10] Thucydides blamed " public orators " and demagogues for a failure of epistemic knowledge , allowing most Athenians to "believe silly things about their past and ...
Jacob Grumbach published the State Democracy Index which evaluates states between 2000 and 2018 on the strength of their electoral democracy. While starting in 2002 and accelerating after the 2010 elections and redistricting, Grumbach finds American states under unified Republican Party control began significant backsliding, while Democratic ...
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.
“Liberal democracy will not make a comeback unless people are willing to struggle on its behalf. The problem is that many who grow up living in peaceful, prosperous liberal democracies begin to ...
Political apathy is sometimes considered distinct from political alienation, "the sense that voters feel like the political system does not work for them and any attempt to influence it will be a fruitless exercise." [11] Political alienation is adversely related to political efficacy, [12] [13] the voter's trust in their ability to influence ...
A democracy is a system of government in which private citizens exercise their power directly by electing officials to one or more governing bodies, such as Norway's Storting. [citation needed] Healthy democracies can be classified as defective when any of the key components of government are missing, or fail to properly link to one another ...
Against Democracy is a book by American political philosopher Jason Brennan.It contains the writer's critical perspectives on democracy, a form of government in which the rights to rule are evenly given to every citizen, and argues for its replacement by the more limiting epistocracy, where such rights are achieved by the knowledgeable.
“The problems attributed to democracy, particularly regarding crises like climate change, are real and worthy of concern — I lose sleep over them,” says Steven Levitsky, a professor of ...