Posted on 12/31/2016 4:42:29 AM PST by maddog55
A taxpayer-funded political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has concluded that political conditions in North Carolina are comparable to political conditions in totalitarian nations such as Cuba, Venezuela and Iran because Republicans are too politically successful.
The professor, Andrew Reynolds, aired his 936-word grievance last week in The News & Observer, a newspaper out of Raleigh.
North Carolina “can no longer be classified as a full democracy,” Reynolds declares, because the statewide Republican Party has been too successful at winning the state’s winner-take-all elections.
The winner-take-all system — which is excessively common throughout the United States — is a huge problem, Reynolds pontificates, because “one party wins just half the votes but 100 percent of the power.” North Carolina Republicans have won so many elections in recent years that they have “a huge legislative majority” and “absolute veto-proof control.”
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Last time I checked, there has been no wall erected around NC to keep people in, and no restrictions on leaving that particular state for another one that is “more democratic”. So what is holding this guy back?
“The professor should consult the books and read what our nation is - a Constitutional Republic.”
But is the state a Constitutional Republic?
See #$21. It was explicitly explained by another Freeper.
If i were him i would resign.
Classic projection. Accuse the others of what you would do yourself if you could get away with it.
While the federal govt is a republic, I have not considered whether individual states are required, as you state, or just guaranteed the freedom to choose. I am not sure I read “required” and “guaranteed” as the same thing. It seems like individuals in states would certainly want that. For example, it does not seem right that the city of Las Vegas basically dictates how the rest of the state must live since it has a higher population than all of the remainder of Nevada. This is where ballot initiatives can become a two edged sword.
Please don’t trot out that tired, pedantic trope.
A republic form of government is a subset of democracy, not a sui generis construction.
Carolina? No surprise there.
Yet you denigrate the meaning of the real difference in that distinction. In no way, shape or form is a mob-rule democracy the same as a republic governed by laws. While true that republic has aspects of democracy via representation by legislators, it patently cannot overrule (in theory) established laws for the protection of individual rights.
Your insistence in trying to equate the two without the very clear distinction is tired, pedantic trope also.
His bio per the UNC web site:
He is particularly interested in the presence and impact of minorities and marginalized communities.
He has worked for the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), the UK Department for International Development, the US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Foundation for Election Systems.
He has also served as a consultant on issues of electoral and constitutional design for Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Egypt, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and Zimbabwe; most recently in Libya, Egypt and Burma. He has received research awards from the U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the US Agency for International Development, and the Ford Foundation. Among his books are Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World (Oxford, 2011), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy (Oxford, 2002), Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa (Oxford, 1999), Election 99 South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki (St. Martin’s, 1999), and Elections and Conflict Management in Africa (USIP, 1998), co-edited with T. Sisk.
His forthcoming book Modest Harvest: Legacies and Limits of the Arab Spring (co-authored with Jason Brownlee [UT Austin] and Tarek Masoud [Harvard]) will be published by Oxford.
In 2012 he embarked on a two year research project to study the impact of LGBT national parliamentarians on public policy around the world. His articles have appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Democratization, Politics and Society, Electoral Studies, Journal of Democracy, The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly.
He has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and San Diego Union Tribune. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Arabic, Serbo-Croat, Albanian, Burmese, Thai and Portuguese.
“In 2012 he embarked on a two year research project to study the impact of LGBT national parliamentarians on public policy around the world.”
Must have been for the Hillary State Department.
Notice he doesn’t say that about California, where Hillary won 66% of the vote.
Commies will be commies. They can see the splinter in another’s eye but can’t see the beam in their own.
Oh, but I do! I don't hide my meager role in the campaign!
Excellent. That's what I like about FR.
Thanks.
I find it amusing that any professor at UNCheat can grieve about anything outside their own university bounds. Their athletic department has engaged in wholesale cheating for 30 years to keep their black slave athletes academically eligible to keep the sports revenue flowing. (See the recent NCAA amended Notice of Allegations) Maybe he should stay in his own backyard and try to make his difference in the world.
Screw this pompous hypocrite.
Dean’s Myth lives....
So he’s basically a UN loving socialist liberal faggot.
Cool. Let's throw his ass in a gulag.
My thoughts exactly. And that school is filled with morons. I’m in NC and every day there is more crap from this school. I am sick of it. He is not going to go away anytime soon. He’s a controversial jerk. He thinks that there was a legislative coup because the legislator upheld the transgender thing. He is the head of the LGBTQ group there on campus. But a well-respected man on the campus. Well respected for all the wrong reasons.
I live in North Carolina, and I was just the other day commenting (secretly so as no one in the regime could hear) to my assigned wife that the labor camp I have to work in seven days a week only served rice with maggots once a day with a cup of water. The rest of our sustanance was gotten by standing in long lines for our government rations at least six hours a day. I also mentioned my neighbor being dragged away from his home for re-education. I hope I’ll see him again.
Oh, wait, is that the sounds of boots kicking my door?
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