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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.
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- Published: 2012-03-23T18:32:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:23:23.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

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

[BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16480070?ref=ivn.us)