{"id":31,"date":"2012-01-31T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=31"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:35:39","slug":"what-does-democracy-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/what-does-democracy-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Democracy look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Wednesday, 2\/1 please read GC Ch 3, up to page 110, and RV Ch 2. The questions we&#8217;re interested in for class discussion are: <\/p>\n<p>In what ways was &#8220;democracy ascendant&#8221; (to use Keyssar&#8217;s phrase) in the early republic? <\/p>\n<p>Why, according to Schudson, was there a genuine revolution in 1800 (and why hadn&#8217;t it been part of the American Revolution in the 1770s and 1780s)?<\/p>\n<p>Do Keyssar and Schudson agree in their interpretation of the degree of democracy in American society in the early 19th century? If not, where do they disagree? <\/p>\n<p>What kinds of historical sources do these two authors draw upon to make their arguments about the growth of democratic institutions in this era? <\/p>\n<p>Link to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnnc.org\/lp\/multimedia\/12357\">Political Parties in the US 1820-1860<\/a>&#8221; graphic PDF (8.5&#215;14&#8243;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Wednesday, 2\/1 please read GC Ch 3, up to page 110, and RV Ch 2. The questions we&#8217;re interested in for class discussion are: In what ways was &#8220;democracy ascendant&#8221; (to use Keyssar&#8217;s phrase) in the early republic? Why, according to Schudson, was there a genuine revolution in 1800 (and why hadn&#8217;t it been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-sessions","category-spr12","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}