The Politics of Defeat
Political Note #2.
One of the essential requirements of a functioning democracy is the consent of the losers. Or as Shaun Bowler, a professor of political science at the University of California Riverside, put it in an essay four years ago:
“In every contested election there are winners and losers. While lots of attention, money, and power flows to the winners, it is reall…
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