Karen Stenner Quotes
We can moralize all day about how we want ideal citizens to be, but democracy is most secure, and tolerance is maximized, when we design systems to accommodate how people actually are.
Karen Stenner Making Up Is Hard to DoMaking Up Is Hard to Do The Atlantic, November 2016
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She had been accused of being a follower of public opinion rather than a driver of it as many politicians see themselves. At the time, she refused to stake out specific positions in her contest for the presidential nomination of her party—the socialists. She won the primary, the first such French woman, but lost in the general election.
He and a few of his colleagues had been invited to the White House for a screening of his latest movie. President George W. Bush had also invited some members of Congress and other Republican politicians. As Crystal was the star of the movie, the President introduced him and invited him to make some remarks.
Karen Stenner is a political scientist specializing in political psychology. Stenner has studied the political activation of authoritarian personality types, and how that activation explains the contemporary success of some authoritarian political figures as well as enduring conflicts between some individuals and the broad tolerance that characterizes liberal democracy.
