Citizenship in Hard Times How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
12.01.2022
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
234
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.8 cm
Gewicht
497 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-316-51233-3
"In the United States, democratic insecurity may seem rather sudden, with the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016, an outsider candidate with weak commitments to liberal democratic norms, uncomfortable admiration for authoritarian strongmen, a toxic mix of xenophobic and racial politics, and little deference to the Constitution. This view culminated in the violent, January 6, 2021, insurrection, where Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol building to disrupt the certification of Electoral College votes confirming Joe Biden the ... winner of the 2020 presidential election. For others, 2016 and everything that followed only laid bare the fragility of American democratic institutions, preserving counter-majoritarian institutions and exposed by gerrymandering practices and decades of voting suppression, and with it, a persistent second-class citizenship for America's ethnic and racial minorities"--
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