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    Jodi Enda

    Jodi Enda is an award-winning journalist with decades of experience covering national politics, government and the media. As a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Knight Ridder Newspapers, she covered the White House, Congress, presidential campaigns and national news. She also has edited major projects for newspapers and magazines, conducted media training and spoken internationally […]

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    4. Hopeful themes and suggested solutions

    About a third of the experts who responded to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly strengthen core aspects of democracy and democratic representation. This section includes comments about hopes for the future that were made by all respondents, whether or not their answer in this canvassing was that democracy will be strengthened. […]

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    Liberal Democracy’s Crisis of Confidence

    Special to the Journal of Democracy Liberal democracy is experiencing a crisis of confidence. Scholars and pundits may disagree about the nature and depth of the problem, but few would argue that nothing is amiss. Commentators decry an increasingly familiar list of trends, including weakening civil liberties, eroding democratic norms, rising nativism, and growing support […]

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    Methodology

    This Pew Research Center analysis is based on surveys of parents and teens that were conducted using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. AmeriSpeak is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of the U.S. household population. Randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known, nonzero probability of selection from the NORC National Frame, and then contacted by […]

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    Methodology

    The data in this report come from two surveys: a survey of 10,682 U.S. adults ages 18 and older conducted using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) and a survey of 920 teens ages 13 to 17 conducted using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel, for a combined sample size of 11,602. The American Trends Panel […]

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    In 2016, emergency laws restricted religious freedoms of Muslims more than other groups

    In 2016, seven nations – Turkey, Brunei, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, Niger and Tunisia – directly used emergency laws to restrict religion, according to Pew Research Center’s latest annual religious restrictions study. While a number of different religious groups were targeted, these laws imposed restrictions on Muslims more than any other group.