In a March 2022 paper “Good Citizens’ in Democratic Hard Times,” Sara Wallace Goodman, [associate professor of political science], of the University of California, Irvine examined the growing disagreement among voters over what the obligations of a good citizen are. Goodman compared voter attitudes on what constitutes “good citizen” norms in 2004 and in 2019. A strikingly high level of agreement between Republicans and Democrats in 2004 had nearly disappeared by 2019, according to Goodman’s research …. 

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