‘One of the odd and scary things about American politics’ is what Republicans are doing
‘One of the odd and scary things about American politics’ is what Republicans are doing
- April 19, 2023
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, The New York Times, April 19, 2023
Why is democracy under such stress now? There are many answers to that question, including, crucially, the divisiveness inherent in the elevated levels of contemporary polarization that makes democratic consensus so difficult to achieve. In an April 2021 paper, four scholars, Samuel Wang of Princeton, Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon, [Distinguished Professor] Bernard Grofman of the University of California, Irvine, and Keena Lipsitz of Queens College, address the basic question of what led to the erosion among a substantial number of voters of support for democratic principles in a nation with a two-century-plus commitment to this tradition …
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