''Democracy'' is as an American quarterly political journal. As of 2023, its website describes its focus as not being on policy papers but on bigger-picture, outside the box thinking.

Founding

It was founded as a forum for

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and

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ideas by

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and

Andrei Cherny Andrei Hugo Cherny (born August 4, 1975) is an American lawyer, author, former government official, and the founder and President of '' Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.'' Cherny serves as the CEO of Aspiration, Inc., a financial firm based in Mar ...

in 2006. Modeled after conservative journals like '' Commentary'' and ''

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,'' the editors put forward ''Democracy'' as "a place where ideas can be developed and important debates can be spurred" at a "time when American politics has grown profoundly unserious." Baer told ''

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'': "We think that the emocraticparty is rich in tactics and poor in ideas. What we really need for long-term success is deep, serious thinking about how we’re going to apply long-held progressive values to new challenges." Cherny added: "I had started thinking about where all of the conservative ideas, for better or worse, had come from. Every big idea — Social Security privatization,

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, preemption, faith-based initiatives — had come out of one of their journals in their intellectual infrastructure." In an editorial for the ''

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'' on July 10, 2006, Baer and Cherny laid out a case for making a break with what they characterized as the "ad hoc approach to politics" they claim the current Democratic Party is engaged in.

Editor

On March 3, 2009,

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replaced Kenneth Baer as editor when Baer left to become associate director of the

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References

External links

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