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Scholars Should Have Foreseen Today’s Democratic Crisis, Says American Political Scientist

From Folha de S.Paulo · () Portuguese

Translated from Portuguese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Interview Named sources Context piece
  • Sheri Berman, a leading scholar of democracy, is preparing a book on the shift from optimism about democracy to the current crisis.
  • Her analysis examines developments since the turn of the 21st century that have placed even stable democracies under threat.
  • Berman argues that scholars should have foreseen the crisis.

Political scientist Sheri Berman says scholars should have anticipated the democratic crisis unfolding today. At 60, she is one of the world’s leading authorities on democracy and is preparing a book scheduled for publication next year.

The book examines how optimism about the democratic system, which prevailed around the turn of the 21st century, gave way to a crisis that now threatens democracies in places once considered stable.

Berman’s argument turns the focus toward the responsibility of researchers and observers. The warning is not limited to countries with long-standing political instability. It also concerns established democracies whose resilience had previously seemed assured.

Scholars should have foreseen today’s democratic crisis.

· Sheri BermanThe headline’s central claim about the failure to anticipate the current threat to democracies.
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