Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats

If I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it's like actually true. Sara Wallace Goodman A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat here. Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universi...

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