Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The most comprehensive way to approach American democracy is to look at its genesis. But the sources of American democracy have never been well understood. When in the late nineteenth century Frederick Jackson Turner, a Harvard professor of History, came out with his thesis attributing the growth of democracy to...
Yet time has transformed America. At the start of this century Progressives tried to give more life to American democracy and Theodore Roosevelt boomed out the old spirit in new forms. But the modern century was not as simple as the last -- the communities had already been built and the...
It should be clear that the homeland of democracy has changed. The environment that served from the genesis of a working democracy is no longer, and democracy now sits atop the bustle of highly industrialized society only in name.
But today's changed environment for democracy has obviously altered the effect of political parties too. The political party of the 1840's that sponsored community events such as torchlit processions on election eve and encouraged the people to participate in essential decisions by calling mass meetings, now cuts off...
Overall, the answer must be that our political parties, operating, in an environment that undermines the sociological impetus toward democracy, provide additional obstructions to the operation of political democracy. Instead of aiding the political democracy of this nation as they once did, political parties now discourage that course.