Declining Civility and Growing Political Violence at the Local Level: A Threat to American Democracy.

Autor:	Williams, Vince, Gottlieb, Jacob, Lee, Tina
Předmět:	POLITICAL violence HARASSMENT SOCIAL science research CORRUPT practices in elections COURTESY PARTISANSHIP POWER (Social sciences) POLITICAL science
Zdroj:	State & Local Government Review; Mar2022, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p7-12, 6p
Abstrakt:	While the safety and well-being of local officials must be prioritized first in any strategy to address harassment, threats and violence, an improved civil discourse is critical to reducing these extreme behaviors. Multiple local officials surveyed by NLC anecdotally shared that while harassment, threats and violence had been heightened for a few years, this behavior got dramatically worse since the start of the pandemic ([1]). Over the last few years, the American polity has abandoned civility and increasingly resorted to anger, vitriol and violence rather than dialog to share their problems and express differences. [Extracted from the article]
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