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Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute
improvements on the results of the previous 15 years of this annual survey. Even more troubling, the separate World Values Survey has found that since the 1950s, ever fewer numbers within each birth cohort in the United States has ranked it “essential” to live in a democratically governed country. Not even a third of Americans born in the 1980s think democracy is vital. This state of affairs follows prolonged disinvestment in the fields of history and civics: today, a new report reveals, federal spending per pupil in these subjec
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Who is a ‘worthy American?’ Political scholar leads discussion in Greenwich
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1of2Political scholar Norman Ornstein spoke Wednesday night at a League of Women Voters of Greenwich and Greenwich Library event. Ornstein has been sounding the alarm about political tribalism and in the wake of the capitol riot, he spoke about the need for government reform.Photo: Screenshot
2of2Stephen Heintz is co-chair of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship and he outlined the more than 30 recommendations it has put together to try and bring government structure into the 21st Century.Photo: Screenshot
GREENWICH “We have barely dodged a bullet this past week.” That was the message that political scholar Norm Ornstein delivered to a Greenwich audience, saying that he had been fearful about the state of America’s democracy for some time.
McCourtney Institute spring events to explore the future of American democracy
Donna Shalala, Anne Applebaum and Danielle Allen, left to right, will present lectures in the coming weeks as part of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy s virtual events series. Visit democracy.psu.edu/virtual-events for more information and to register.
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McCourtney Institute spring events to explore the future of American democracy
January 08, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Following a tumultuous election and violence in Washington, many observers of American democracy are asking whether the United States will come together as a nation or follow the path toward authoritarianism taken by countries around the world.