The shocking paper predicting the end of democracy
The shocking paper predicting the end of democracy
- September 8, 2019
- Shawn Rosenberg, poli sci, Politico Magazine, Sept. 8, 2019
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As one of the lions of the profession, 68-year-old Shawn Rosenberg, began delivering his paper, people in the crowd of about a hundred started shifting in their seats. … What caused the stir? Rosenberg, a professor at UC Irvine, was challenging a core assumption about America and the West. His theory? Democracy is devouring itself—his phrase — and it won’t last. … Rosenberg, who earned degrees at Yale, Oxford and Harvard, may be the social scientist for our time if events play out as he suggests they will.
For the full story, please visit https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/08/shawn-rosenberg-democracy-228045.
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