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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats

Democracy Paradox

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Democracy and Hard Times

Every generation has had a democratic threat. The nature of the threat has changed, right? So in the 19 ninetieswh while i talk about them as the idealized west wing days of american democracy, ouo, the problem for democracy was low participation. Hard times is really about kind of structural compromise to the kind of predicted institutions. It's this hopelessness that's almost pervasive, that you're looking forward and you don't see a way out.

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