American democracy Quote by Steven Levitsky

“Two basic norms have preserved America’s checks and balances in ways we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that…

— Steven Levitsky

“All the domestic controversies of the Americans at first appear to a stranger to be so incomprehensible and so puerile that he is at…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We believe that we have checks and balances, but have rarely faced a situation like the present: when the less popular of the two…

— Timothy Snyder

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“the less popular of the two parties controls every lever of power at the federal level, as well as the majority of statehouses. The…

— Timothy Snyder

“Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded…

— Thomas E. Mann

“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of…

— Kenneth Minogue

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

American democracy has two faces.

— Alexander Lukashenko

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

“The only sure way to alter today’s patently unequal democracy is for average Americans to mobilize politically—to break out of their political inertia and…

— Hedrick Smith

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

— Len Webster