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University of Chicago Tagged With: fake news, Polarization, Republican Party, Trumpism, United States
Even though the 2020 Presidential Election was called on November 14th, escaping election news seems impossible. The last week has seen Trump's legal team file a plethora of lawsuits over supposed …
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University of Chicago Tagged With: democracy, Donald Trump, middle class, Seymour Lipset, United States, wealth inequality
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made certain democracies stable and others unstable. He …
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