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Democratic backslide in the United States - Coggle Diagram
Democratic backslide in the United States
Why do democracies fail?
Kapstein & Converse: development of democratization is based on initial conditions such as per capita income, inequality, and ethnic fragmentation and how compromising any of these can lead to collapse
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main idea between each article: inequality of some form
US Placed on list of backsliding democracies
Berger, Miriam: Turning point in US with jan 6th events at capitol, continue to unravel
Sundaresan, Mano: Backslide might not be all negative: better voter turnout, more women in congress, more electoral participation
Backsliding caused by Jan 6th insurrection
Berger article
Sundaresan article
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642221096335
: insurrection and illiberalism
Executive level: inciting belief that elections are unfair, falsely leading voters to think that voting rights are being compromised
Backsliding caused by inequality
:
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2764532791?pq-origsite=primo
Supreme court and women's health: Roe V Wade, sex ed, trans access to healthcare
Judiciary level: Supreme court limitations on equal access
Gim Article: Gender inequality at judiciary and State level
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=s8325387&id=GALE%7CA747089459&v=2.1&it=r&aty=ip
School learning bans at state level: state legislation and learning bans
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State level problems
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=s8325387&id=GALE%7CA747089459&v=2.1&it=r&aty=ip
education restrictions at state level
connection to inequality: "Those opposing CRT believe its tenets promote anti-white racism, cultural division, and threaten the public institution of education," but actually run contrary to the teachings
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Judiciary level problems
Supreme court (Gim article, and
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2764532791?pq-origsite=primo
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Executive level problems :
Berger, illiberalism article, all articles about jan 6th
Link to inequality: Former president falsely led voters to believe that their rights were being taken
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