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David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Stanford University.

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A Question of Character

David M. Kennedy

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Response: Kennedy Response to Anxieties of Democracy

Ira Katznelson raises unsettling questions about the prospects for liberal democracy globally. I will confine my observations to reflections on the American case. Katznelson’s lamentation for the failings of legislative representation—the Congress...
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