Nicholas Davis: Defining Democracy - Do We Agree? (and Are We Past the Rubicon?)

In this episode I'm talking to Dr. Nicholas Davis - Assistant Professor and the principal investigator of the Democracy and Open Science Lab at the University of Alabama. He co-wrote the book Democracy's Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why it Matters, which informs our discussion today about how we define democracy, how those definitions differ, and how those differences inform our expectation for government and our social contract. We also discuss the future of American democracy and if we have passed the rubicon.

Mentioned:
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Unworthy Republic – Claudio Saunt

The New Trail of Tears - Naomi Schaefer Riley

Our Savage Neighbor: How Indian War Transformed Early America – Peter Silver

Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier – David Andrew Nichols

Sacred Violence in Early America – Susan Juster

Recommended:
Democracy's Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why it Matters - Nicholas T. Davis, Keith Gaddie, and Kirby Goidel

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