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Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats

Democracy Paradox

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Citizens and Partisans in Hard Times

In good times, democracies oftentimes encourage citizenship. But during difficult times they tend to fall back into partisanship. When you centore citizens in thinking about democracy and democratic threat, it means thinking about what civic obligations are. In hard times, i make the argument that citizens think about their partisan preferences. They think aboutWhat's best for my party.

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