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| * Sales of self-help books
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| = History and Philosophy =
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| The [[wikipedia:Liberal democracy#Origins|Wikipedia article on liberal democracy]] gives a good overview of how modern democracies evolved.
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| Daniel Ziblatt [http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/05/making-liberal-democracies posits] that the factional strength of a country's elites determines the survival of democracy, not a rise in living standards or an uprising of the working or middle class.
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| = Voting =
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| Who shows up to vote?
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| * [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/upshot/black-turnout-in-1964-and-beyond.html "Black Turnout in 1964, and Beyond."] ''New York Times''. October 16, 2014.
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| * [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/ "Black voter turnout fell in 2016, even as a record number of Americans cast ballots."] Pew Research. May 12, 2017.
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| * [http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics Voter Turnout Demographics]
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| How do votes translate to decisions?
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| Requires [[diversity]] and [[education]].
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| Ka-Ping Yee's [http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ voting simulation visualizations].
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| = U.S. Population / Demographic Shifts =
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| == Religion ==
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| According to Pew Research<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States</ref>:
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| * Evangelical Protestant — 25.4%
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| * Mainline Protestant — 14.7%
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| * Black church — 6.5%
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| * Catholic — 20.8%
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| According to Gallup, 2014 "Beliefs and Values" survey suggested that 42 percent of Americans are creationists, 31 percent are theistic evolutionists, and 19 percent are atheistic evolutionists.<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/you-cant-educate-people-into-believing-in-evolution/382983/</ref>
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| [https://www.axios.com/when-children-become-scarce-birth-rates-falling-92f11c1e-a26a-4635-8885-9eab1ffd182e.html When children become scarce]
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| = Regional Inequality =
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| [[Cities]]
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| Gerrymandering
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| = Foreign Policy =
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| Transformational versus transactional diplomacy
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| = Activism =
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| * [https://equalcitizens.us/ Equal Citizens]. Founded by Lawrence Lessig.
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