SCOTUS & US Constitution
The First Amendment guarantees these five freedoms.
What are the freedoms of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly?
Citizens' assemblies and participatory budgeting are examples of this form of democracy, defended by Hélène Landemore.
What is open democracy?
This journalist said the press put out false reports on lynching and combating them required getting the "facts before the public."
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Jason Brennan appeals to this principle to argue that not everyone has a right to participate in politics since it involves imposing your will on others.
What is the competence principle?
In their study of large voluntary associations in the 1800s, Chamberlain and colleagues proposed this revision to the idea that the US is "a nation of joiners"?
What is "a nation of temporary joiners"?
This landmark Supreme Court decision first recognized "an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia."
What is DC v. Heller (2008)?
Electoral democracy has these three features that guard against state capture, according to Samuel Bagg.
What are universal suffrage, competitive elections, and discretionary state power?
This co-founder of the Black Panthers called out the California legislature as racist for trying to disarm Black people.
Who is Bobby Seale?
This concept coined by Svolik and colleagues measures an "electorate’s willingness to punish a preferred party or candidate for undermining democracy."
What is democratic resilience?
In a survey experiment comparing different hypothetical societies, Adserà and colleagues found that participants from Brazil, France, and the US valued this societal feature the most.
What is democracy?
The US Supreme Court recognizes these two types of freedom of association as protected by the Constitution.
What are the freedoms of intimate and expressive association?
In this model of representation defended by Edmund Burke, a representative votes based on their best judgment.
What is the trustee model of representation?
This suffragist organization led by Alice Paul engaged in civil and uncivil disobedience.
What is the National Woman's Party?
This concept, studied by Iyengar and Westwood, refers to taking a favorable view of copartisans and a negative view of opposing partisans.
What is affective polarization?
Sharkey and colleagues found that additional nonprofits in these two categories had the biggest impact on reducing crime from 1990 to 2013.
What is substance abuse and workforce development?
This amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
In this model of representation, a representative votes in accordance with their constituents' wishes.
What is the delegate model of representation?
This according to Tocqueville is the "mother science" in democratic societies.
What is the science of association?
This concept refers to relationships and networks characterized by norms, trust, and reciprocity that provide benefits to those in them.
What is social capital?
Sharkey and Kang found that states with these types of gun laws tended to have fewer gun deaths.
What are restrictive gun laws?
The father of the US Constitution, James Madison, said this government was best for guarding against the dangers of faction.
What is a large representative republic?
Jason Brennan gives these five examples of epistocracy, a form of government he thinks could do better than democracy.
What are weighted voting, plural voting, restricted suffrage, epistocratic veto, and enfranchisement lottery?
This co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party emphasized decentralized leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Ella Baker?
This practice by the Black Panthers, which involved openly displaying loaded weapons, led to the California Legislature passing the Mulford Act.
What is copwatching?
Skocpol and colleagues found that most voluntary associations in US cities in the early 1900s were part of these.
What are larger federations?