Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
Democracy Paradox
The Anti-Democracy Threats Need to Be Defeated or Attenuated
I think the volume as a whole offers a lot of grounds for optimism. I might be a little more on the pessimistic side, in part because i think that anti democratic threats need to be either defeated or accommodated. Polarization has made it such that winning parties can't reshape the electoral tran reshape sor the popularity of their positions. They can barely get what they want done. What they can get done is done in a way that pleases nobody. Now it actually allow them to create a more pro democratic bias towards the democratic party.
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