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	<title>Civic Studies &#187; populism</title>
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		<title>a pluralistic 250th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 250th year of the republic begins, I am not in a celebratory mood. Our current political crisis is the worst since 1877, the end of Reconstruction. The government is violating core republican principles; and to some extent, this is happening because of flaws in American culture and civil society. Still, the United States [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34181">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the dignity of democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fine arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite object in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts&#8217; exhibition &#8220;Power&#160;of the People: Art and Democracy&#8221; is Paul Shambroom&#8217;s Maurice, Louisiana (Population 642) Village Council, May 15, 2002 (shown above). This large exhibition presents works from ancient Athens to contemporary America, including some famous and powerful objects. In this context, Shambroom dignifies democracy as [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33378">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the New Institutionalism, deliberative democracy, and the rise of the New Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deliberation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In public debates about issues and problems, we typically consider institutions in two ways. On the one hand, we discuss their explicit purposes and missions, as reflected in the laws that create and govern them or (if they are autonomous) &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21997">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>we are lucky with our right-wing authoritarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Washington, DC) At today&#8217;s Deliberative Democracy Consortium&#8217;s Research &#38; Practice Meeting on &#8220;Deliberative Democracy and Human Cognition,&#8221; Shawn W. Rosenberg made a point that I have often considered but never expressed. Here is the background to the point: A broad &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21975">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>how not to talk about The People</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=20180</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Bartiromo (Fox News): As the commander-in-chief, as the president of this great country, what can you do to bring us together? Donald Trump: Our people are so incredible. &#8230;&#160; Do you know, there&#8217;s probably never been a base in &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=20180">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>coming soon: Democracy’s Discontent and Civic Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now available for pre-ordering is&#160;Charles S. White (ed.), Democracy&#8217;s Discontent and Civic Learning:&#160;Multiple Perspectives. Chapters include: &#8220;The Populist Moment,&#8221; by William A. Galston. &#8220;Populism, Democracy, and the Education of Citizens,&#8221; by Thomas S. Vontz and J. Spencer Clark, (with Stephen &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=20126">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Trump at the confluence of populism, chauvinism, and celebrity</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19888</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump says many things. Some are innocuous and banal. Quite a few are inconsistent. And some provide evidence that he belongs in these three categories: A &#8220;populist&#8221; in the particular sense proposed by Jan-Werner M&#252;ller. (I also like to &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19888">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Jan-Werner Müller and Rick Valelly at Tisch College</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19851</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Join Princeton&#8217;s Jan-Werner M&#252;ller (author, most recently, of&#160;What is Populism?&#160;which has been translated into more than 20 languages in two years) and Swarthmore&#8217;s&#160;Rick Valelly (author of&#160;The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement and many other books) for a discussion &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19851">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Building Civic Capacity in an Era of Democratic Crisis by Hollie Russon-Gilman and K. Sabeel Rahman</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19147</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[populism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revitalizing the left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About $3 billion was contributed to influence 2016 federal campaigns. In a new paper entitled &#8220;Building Civic Capacity in an Era of Democratic Crisis,&#8221; Hollie Russon-Gilman&#160;and&#160;K. Sabeel Rahman&#160;suggest a much better way to spend some of that money. I realize, &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19147">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Democrats as technocrats</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18925</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2016 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This web search takes you to a whole stack of good recent writing about the Democratic Party as the technocratic party, with headlines ranging from&#160;Twilight of the Technocrats?&#160;to&#160;The Triumph of the Technocrats. In lieu of a critical review, I&#8217;d pose &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18925">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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