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DESCRIPTION:State of Democracy Lecture Series Presents Laura Nader\, Profes
 sor of Anthropology\, University of California at Berkeley “If you want to
  spread democracy you have to be one” Although we only rarely contemplate 
 the meaning of American democracy in the United States\, the word democrac
 y is in frequent usage especially by contrast- “we have democracy\, they n
 eed democracy\;” “we support the only democracy in the Middle East.” More 
 thought provoking however are the contrasts made between democracy and emp
 ire\, or between the republic and the empire\, although even in those cont
 exts usage is blurred and sometimes subsumed into the other as with neolib
 eralism and democracy\, or “democracy of business” where salesmanship and 
 statesmanship are overlapping. But from a We the People’s point of view (a
 s versus academics\, business\, or politicians)\, the view may be more clo
 sely allied to Founder’s notions of democracy. Social historians and anthr
 opologists might ground democracy as practiced in everyday life lived in t
 hese United States\, more in fit with citizens’ practicing democracy at th
 e local level sometimes at odds with abstract scholarship on the subject. 
 Such democratic practice may be perceived as a threat OR as the strength o
 f a democracy in contemporary jeopardy.
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SUMMARY:State of Democracy Lecture Series(2)
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:State of Democracy Lecture Series Presents Lau
 ra Nader\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of California at Berkele
 y “If you want to spread democracy you have to be one” Although we only ra
 rely contemplate the meaning of American democracy in the United States\, 
 the word democracy is in frequent usage especially by contrast- “we have d
 emocracy\, they need democracy\;” “we support the only democracy in the Mi
 ddle East.” More thought provoking however are the contrasts made between 
 democracy and empire\, or between the republic and the empire\, although e
 ven in those contexts usage is blurred and sometimes subsumed into the oth
 er as with neoliberalism and democracy\, or “democracy of business” where 
 salesmanship and statesmanship are overlapping. But from a We the People’s
  point of view (as versus academics\, business\, or politicians)\, the vie
 w may be more closely allied to Founder’s notions of democracy. Social his
 torians and anthropologists might ground democracy as practiced in everyda
 y life lived in these United States\, more in fit with citizens’ practicin
 g democracy at the local level sometimes at odds with abstract scholarship
  on the subject. Such democratic practice may be perceived as a threat OR 
 as the strength of a democracy in contemporary jeopardy.
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