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This course will examine contemporary challenges to democracy in the United States and attempt to locate them in historical (and comparative) perspective.  Among the subjects to be explored:  the constitutional design of American governance and the importance of non-constitutional norms;  the roles of race and immigration?in fostering social and political divisions;  widening economic inequality; religion;  the fragmentation of news sources; conflicts over the right to vote and election procedures; and strategies for reversing “democratic backsliding.”