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?
What is copwatching?
The percentage that crime went down in US cities between 1990 and 2013.
What is 50%?
In an experiment by Iyengar and Westwood, this factor best predicted which applicant Democrats and Republicans would award a scholarship to.
What is the applicant's political party?
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?
An experiment by Reddan and colleagues found that viewing this film increased support for criminal justice reform across the political spectrum.
What is Just Mercy?
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?
What is the trustee model of representation?
This event changed the course of the NRA, leading it to engage in more active lobbying to oppose gun control.
What is the 1977 Revolt in Cincinnati?
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?
In their surveys of European citizens, Svolik and colleagues measured this--an "electorate’s willingness to punish a preferred party or candidate for undermining democracy."
What is democratic resilience?
The 14th Amendment protects this variety of freedom of association.
What is intimate association?
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?
Enacted in 2022, this was the first federal antilynching law in the US.
What is the Emmett Till Antilynching Act?
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 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?
Skocpol and colleagues found that most voluntary associations in US cities in the early 1900s were part of these.
What are larger federations?