![]() ![]() You won’t find the answer just by looking to a familiar origin story about ancient Greece, notes David Stasavage, a professor in the Department of Politics, dean for the social sciences at NYU, and author of the newly released The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today. The line even found its way into a modernized production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in Central Park in 2017.īut what does democracy actually look like? Since then, other activists have taken up the phrase as a rallying cry for everything from protesting police brutality, most recently during demonstrations in response to the killing of George Floyd, to advocating for women’s rights and blasting corporations. They punctuated their actions with a now-world-famous chant, “This is what democracy looks like!” Two decades ago, protestors disrupted a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle with multiple days of demonstrations and property destruction. The United States was celebrated as the world’s first modern democracy, but its founders feared that mistrust in government could be its undoing ![]()
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