A little over a month ago, the North Carolina Democratic Party committed fraud against North Carolina’s Green Party in order to prevent the NCGP from getting on the ballots for the senatorial elections. NCGP candidate Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain who served in Afghanistan, gathered well over the 13,865 signatures required for a candidate …
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Visions of Democracy: Elite Competition
Welcome to the third and final part of this series! A brief recap of weeks one and two: Liberal pluralism involves competing interest groups and relies on aggregation of these interests, which are automatically known to people. Deliberative democracy is a system in which political discussions lead people to discover common interests. The third broad …
Visions of Democracy: Deliberative Democracy
Liberal pluralism is the version of democracy that we explored in the last post, a vision of democracy that focuses on group dynamics within a society and how these groups advance their own interests. A second theoretical vision of democracy, deliberative democracy, offers a very different version for how this system of governance is supposed …
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Visions of Democracy: Liberal Pluralism
How is democracy supposed to work in theory? As it turns out, scholars do not agree on this question. There can be vast differences between theories as to the basic functions of democracy and how the government interacts with its citizens. These different theories of democracy result in different diagnoses of the major problems facing …
North Carolina Democrats Commit Fraud Against the Green Party
Each major party in the United States wants to claim that it is the sole upholder of democracy and that the opposing party is the evildoer bent on destroying American society as we know it. Any close look, of course, will reveal that this rhetoric is mere posturing, and that each party will subvert democracy …
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We Don’t Want That Type of Democracy Here: Florida’s Ban of Ranked-Choice Voting
There’s more than one controversial bill in recent Floridian news. Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that bans ranked-choice voting (RCV), a provision snuck into Senate Bill 524. RCV is a critical step for any nation that wants to have more democratic and fair elections. This system of voting eliminates the fear …
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The National Coal Policy Project: A Political Experiment
The 70s were a tumultuous time in many senses. The realm of energy and the environment is one area in which the policy scene changed rapidly in just a few years. Nuclear energy, once seen as so promising in the public eye, was now viewed with more distrust. Protests and negative public opinion made it …
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A Government By the People & For the People: British Columbia’s Experiment with Deliberative Democracy
Congress is currently in the midst of negotiations on a bill that would lower prescription drug prices for Americans, who already pay more for medical care than citizens of any other country on earth for worse health outcomes than other developed nations. Despite the fact that the Democrats have control of the House and Senate, …
France and India Show the US How to Protest
As winter approaches in the United States, conditions remain on their downward trend. The lockdowns related to the coronavirus continue without individuals who have lost their job due to the pandemic being compensated in any way. Millions of Americans are at risk of being evicted once the eviction ban expires, and 8 million Americans have …
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Ostracize: How Greek Pottery Gave Us a Word Highly Relevant to the Times
For my blog this week, I thought about writing on how Covid-19 exposes faults in the American economic system and what policies must be implemented in the future to strengthen our society against future crises. Since the virus is pervading every aspect of my news feed, however, I decided against this subject for the time …
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