Democracy Paradox

Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats

Jan 18, 2022

43:33

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Voting Preferences of People in Venezuela

00:30

Put Country Before Party

00:24

Do Citizens Deserve the Blame When Democracies Break Down?

03:53

Are You Saying That in Hard Times, That People Are Making Those Decisions to Prefer That Extreme Candidate?

01:47

Introduction

3min

Do Citizens Deserve the Blame When Democracies Break Down?

4min

Elections and Democracy - It's Complicated

3min

Citizens and Partisans in Hard Times

3min

Are You Saying That in Hard Times, That People Are Making Those Decisions to Prefer That Extreme Candidate?

2min

Democracy and Hard Times

2min

The Only Way Out Is to Travel to the North

2min

What Are the Obligations of Citizenship?

3min

Comparative Analysis of Citizenship in Germany and the United States

2min

10.

Citizenship in the United States Is a Form of Citizenship

3min

11.

Is There a Difference Between Germany and the United States?

3min

12.

Liberal Democracy Is a Catch All for All the Other Identity

2min

13.

What Is the Difference Between a Law and Order Party?

3min

14.

What Is Patriotism?

2min

15.

Is the United States Undergoing Hard Times in Germany?

4min

16.

Democracy in Difficult Times

2min

If I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it's like actually true.

Sara Wallace Goodman

A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat here.

Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat.

Key Highlights

How much agency do citizens have in democracy?
The important differences between citizenship and partisanship and their implications
The role of both rights and duties for citizenship
Differences between citizenship in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
What can citizens do to protect democracy?

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Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat by Sara Wallace Goodman

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Follow Sara Wallace Goodman on Twitter @ThatSaraGoodman

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