Author: Trevor Brown, PhD

As an adolescent in the late 1930s, John Glenn sat transfixed in a high school civics classroom. His teacher, Hartford Steele, educated the sons and daughters of New Concord, Ohio on the virtues of democracy, the basic structure and operation of the American system of representative government, and the duties of citizenship. It would change the course of his live forever.But the world has become starkly different since those days.Partisan competition makes leading in a democracy difficult – diverse political constituencies often want policies that pursue competing values (e.g.