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Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy

  • Written by Jessica Gottlieb, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political newcomers ousting long-tenured incumbents and Democrats unseating Republicans to retake the House of Representatives.

That makes them an exemplary democratic exercise from a political science standpoint: American voters booted the congressional representatives...

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