Historically, as voting became the ritual expression of citizenship, partisanship began to be cast as degraded citizenship, and voting along partisan lines was seen as a sign of both gullibility or cronyism.
Author: Jane Susskind
Published: 23 Mar, 2012
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Updated: 21 Nov, 2022●
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Historically, as voting became the ritual expression of citizenship, partisanship began to be cast as degraded citizenship, and voting along partisan lines was seen as a sign of both gullibility or cronyism.
Nancy Rosenblum, professor of government at Harvard
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