Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today edited by D. Berton Emerson, Gregory Laski
English | January 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0198865694, 0192871870 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1 MB
Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, "democracy" gets wielded in so many divergent directions as to be rendered nearly incoherent.