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3 days ago · In 1989, Chomsky published Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, in which he suggests that a worthwhile democracy requires that its citizens undertake intellectual self-defense against the media and elite intellectual culture that seeks to control them. [124]
2 days ago · In an association as large as a nation-state, representation is necessary for effective participation and for citizen control of the agenda; free, fair, and frequent elections are necessary for effective participation and for equality in voting; and freedom of expression, independent sources of information, and freedom of association ...
2 days ago · Problems and challenges. Democracies face growing challenges in the 21st century. There are new and serious obstacles to their stability, and the diminished performance of many democratic governments in providing encompassing economic security has bred skepticism of the value of democracy among their citizens.
2 days ago · This has led some theorists to insist on its core minimum elements—the fracture between the elites and the people—despite other differences, opening its meaning to include various phenomena that lead to new differentiations and comparisons (Mudde & Kaltwasser, 2018); to abandon the idea of articulating an uncontestable definition of the concept or its intrinsic elements and to put the ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Consider, for example, Amartya Sen’s empirically informed argument that electoral democratic rights prevent famines. 7 It might be complicated to know exactly what to do to prevent famine, but it is not complicated for constituents to know that they are starving, and that famine is bad, and to communicate that fact through the relevant institutional mechanisms—at least if a large number of ...
4 days ago · Although it is tempting to assume that democracy was created in one particular place and time—most often identified as Greece about the year 500 bce —evidence suggests that democratic government, in a broad sense, existed in several areas of the world well before the turn of the 5th century.
3 days ago · Democracy and Its Discontents. Patrick Deneen. Autumn 2024. Harvard Kennedy School Library & Research Services. The claim that our democracy is imperiled should rightly strike fear in the souls of citizens, but it ought also to give pause to any student of politics. During most of the four decades I have studied and written about democracy ...
