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If I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it's like actually true.

Sara Wallace Goodman

A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat  here.

Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat.

Key Highlights

• How much agency do citizens have in democracy?
• The important differences between citizenship and partisanship and their implications
• The role of both rights and duties for citizenship
• Differences between citizenship in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
• What can citizens do to protect democracy?

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Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic ThreatbySara Wallace Goodman

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