Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Republicanism in the United States" in English language version.
When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
Draper: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to me, a rather dispiriting phenomenon that I had not expected to encounter until I started spending all this time in Arizona was to go to these grassroots events and to hear individuals – sometimes candidates, sometimes precinct committee members who constitute the sort of activist base of the Republican Party in Arizona – proactively just say, you know, we're not a democracy. I don't know why people are saying we're a democracy. We're a constitutional republic. Quit saying we're a democracy. And at first I thought, OK, maybe this is some kind of snarky point of scholarship they're trying to win. But I began to realize, no, that's not it at all. They actually have come to view democracy as a sort of offending object, that democracy is a bad thing.
This is a republic," [Pennsylvania State Senator] Mastriano declared from atop the [Pennsylvania] Capitol's terrace over a public-address system. "I know the Democrats want to play a game with our republic. They keep calling it a democracy. 'And to the democracy for which it stands,'" he recited mockingly. "Come on, really? Come on, man!
Draper: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to me, a rather dispiriting phenomenon that I had not expected to encounter until I started spending all this time in Arizona was to go to these grassroots events and to hear individuals – sometimes candidates, sometimes precinct committee members who constitute the sort of activist base of the Republican Party in Arizona – proactively just say, you know, we're not a democracy. I don't know why people are saying we're a democracy. We're a constitutional republic. Quit saying we're a democracy. And at first I thought, OK, maybe this is some kind of snarky point of scholarship they're trying to win. But I began to realize, no, that's not it at all. They actually have come to view democracy as a sort of offending object, that democracy is a bad thing.
This is a republic," [Pennsylvania State Senator] Mastriano declared from atop the [Pennsylvania] Capitol's terrace over a public-address system. "I know the Democrats want to play a game with our republic. They keep calling it a democracy. 'And to the democracy for which it stands,'" he recited mockingly. "Come on, really? Come on, man!
