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American Democracy is an Easy Target

January 17, 2018
Keywords: Foreign Policy (online)

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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There is no alternative

April 25, 2013 aeon Democracy

Governments now answer to business, not voters. Mainstream parties grow ever harder to distinguish. Is democracy dead? Last September, Il Partito Democratico, the Italian Democratic Party, asked me to talk about politics and the internet at its summer school in Cortona. Political summer schools are usually pleasant — Cortona is a medieval Tuscan hill town ...

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Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation and Polarization in American Politics – with Eric Lawrence and John Sides

March 9, 2010 Perspectives on Politics with Eric Lawrence and John Sides

Political scientists and political theorists debate the relationship between participation and deliberation among citizens with different political viewpoints. Blogs provide an important testing ground for their claims. We examine deliberation, polarization, and political participation among blog readers. We find that blog readers gravitate toward blogs that accord with their political beliefs. Few read blogs on ...

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