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No, it is not inevitable that mob rule leads to dictatorship, though it is one possible outcome. The relationship between mob rule and dicta...

The difference between democracy and mob rule lies primarily in the structure, processes, and outcomes of decision-making in each system. De...

Democracy has fallen under harsh times recently - with Trump and Sanders and Brexit and all. Elites have recently begun referring to democra...

This has been commonly remarked upon. Voters are angry. They tend to be so from time to time. The 1992 election comes to mind. Just what mak...

We'll touch on the need for a stable governing system to minimize mob violence - a key point made by the framers of the constitution. -...

Last week we talked about democracy and it's tendencies towards mob violence. Here's an example from about 60 years ago. The resista...

This seems related to the previous post below. - Click here for this post from the TSHA . I'm sorry to say that I'm unaware of t...

Some of the terms we've come to grips with in this class are all over this recent piece of commentary. The author analyzes the results o...

Building off the post below - a newspaper item intended to get the white majority agitated and ready to move.

Mini 3's should prepare for finals questions related to the relative pros and cons of different systems of government (principally autoc...

This is a pretty gruesome story and I only link to it because the author points out the speed of vigilante justice. It only takes seconds f...

I dug up a Young Frankenstein movie clip I mentioned in one of my classes last week. Madison's pure democracy perhaps?

An unforeseen side effect of social networking .

Its a great story, and the level of violence in Mexico is horrific in places, but not everywhere, and apparently not in towns on the America...

Fifty years ago today, Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce a federal court order to desegregate Central High School. In his words, the...