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Trump, Clinton and the future of global democracy

  • Written by Brian Grodsky, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Donald Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladamir Putin puts the U.S. perilously close to abandoning its longstanding role as democracy’s greatest proponent. In the process, Trump is challenging the already threatened notion that democracy is the only legitimate system of rule.

When he and Hillary Clinton take the stage, in what...

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