Table of Contents:
  • 1. Democracy defined :
  • What is American democracy? 20 common forms of government--study starters / David A. Tomar
  • What exactly is neoliberalism? / Kean Birch
  • Democracy's midlife crisis : an interview with David Runciman / David Runciman, Danielle Charette, Jacob Hamburger
  • History and democracy / Sean Wilentz
  • Is the United States of America a republic or a democracy? / Eugene Volokh
  • Are we witnessing the death of liberal democracy / Ian McKay
  • 2. Democracy in context :
  • Democratic identity and economy : the rise of authoritarian capitalism / Kevin Rudd
  • Big fail : the internet hasn't helped democracy / Robert Diab
  • American democracy is ailing : thinking like an economist can help / Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
  • Economic freedom is essential to democracy / William Dunkelberg
  • E pluribus unum? The fight over identity politics / Stacey Y. Abrams, John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck, Jennifer A. Richeson, Francis Fukuyama
  • 3. Democracy or dictatorship?
  • Democratic authoritarianism : American democracy is in crisis, and not just because of Trump / Simon Tisdall
  • American democracy has gone through dark times before / Robert Dallek
  • Lessons in the decline of democracy from the ruined Roman republic / Jason Daley
  • A major democracy watchdog just published a scathing report on Trump / Zack Beauchamp
  • Why is American democracy in danger? / Eric Schoon, Corey Pech
  • 4. How fragile is democracy?
  • The global view : the growing signs of the fragility and resilience of liberal democracy / Heidi Koolmeister
  • Yes, we need to do better : world leaders talk democracy / The New York Times
  • Despite global concerns about democracy, more than half of countries are democratic / Drew DeSilver
  • Democracy is more fragile than many of us realized, but don't believe that it is doomed / Andrew Rawnsley
  • Poland's nationalism threatens Europe's values and cohesion / Steven Erlanger, Marc Santora
  • 5. What do we think of democracy?
  • Attitudes and approaches : the public, the political system and American democracy / Pew Research Center
  • 20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy : they're scared / Sean Illing
  • What the world can learn about equality from the Nordic model / Geoffrey M. Hodgson
  • The Nordic Democratic-Socialist myth / Nima Sanandaji
  • Are millennials giving up on democracy? / Neil Howe
  • On the sidelines of democracy : exploring why so many Americans don't vote / Asma Khalid, Don Gonyea, Leila Fadel.