by jpitney | Jul 10, 2021 | Deliberation, Democracy
Nathan Gardels at Noema: “The growing gap between the governed and their governments cannot be filled by our representative systems alone,” Kalypso Nicolaïdis writes in Noema this week. “What we need is a more continuous dynamic, a permanent commitment to democratic...
by jpitney | Jul 6, 2021 | Civility, Democracy, Elections, Insurrection
Benjy Sarlin at NBC: There’s no legal avenue for Trump to reverse the 2020 results. But a half-dozen scholars who study democracy and election laws told NBC News they are increasingly worried that 2024 could be a repeat of 2020, only with a party further remade in the...
by jpitney | Jun 28, 2021 | China, Democracy
David Dreier, “Freedom Train,” World Affairs Vol. 172, No. 1 (SUMMER 2009), pp. 54-63. We have come a long way since 1989, that year of miracles when we felt, at least for a brief moment, that something fundamental about human freedom had been decided and...
by jpitney | Jun 23, 2021 | Biden, Bipartisanship, Civility, Democracy
“Democracy is a way of being. He understood it begins and grows in an open heart and with a willingness to work across the aisle and come together in common cause, That empathy is the fuel of democracy. The willingness to see each other as opponents, not as...
by jpitney | Jun 7, 2021 | Democracy, Election Security, Elections, State Government
At AEI, Kevin Kosar spoke with Zachary Courser and Eric Helland of Claremont McKenna College: You and your students created a scorecard to measure states’ adaptations to make voting accessible during the pandemic. How did you create the scorecard, and which states...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2021 | Democracy, Europe
David Smith at The Guardian: “There was a momentary sigh of relief but the level of anxiety is actually strangely higher now than in 2016 in the sense that it’s not just about one person but there are broader structural issues,” said Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How...
