Democratic institutional health determines how long vulnerability to the unprecedented lasts

Evidence

Democracy is vulnerable to the unprecedented, but the strength of democratic institutions is the clock that determines the duration and destructiveness of that vulnerability. In a democratic society the debate and contest afforded by still-healthy institutions can shift the tide of public opinion against unexpected sources of oppression and injustice, with legislation and jurisprudence eventually to follow. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1645

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Democratic health depends on citizens’ ability to participate in public debate — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 451; Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57; Democratic institutions can again produce countermeasures to abnormal accumulation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1644 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic institutions can again produce countermeasures to abnormal accumulation #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1644
• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle #exemplifies (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57
• Democratic legitimacy depends on citizens’ internalized commitment that imposed systems cannot replace #expands (0.80) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 74
• Democratic health depends on citizens’ ability to participate in public debate #expands (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 451
• Political trust structures hinge on both historical inheritance and human agency #expands (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1144
• Neoliberalism’s weakening of democratic values enables neoconservative moralism and authoritarianism #qualifies (0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 169