So over the past week, I’ve been asking foreign scholars of democracy how the fights over the American political system look to them. “I’m positive that American democracy is not what Americans think it is,” David Altman, a political scientist in Chile, told me. “For me, as a democracy scholar, it’s ridiculous to say America is the oldest democracy in the world,” Lindberg said. Unlike the historical majority, the electoral majority can, and does, change every few years. The electoral majority reflects the historical majority.

Source: bd News24 July 02, 2021 09:22 UTC