Which of the Following Characterizes Journalist Walter Lippmann's Views on Democracy

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which of the following characterizes journalist Walter Lippmann's views on democracy?

• A)He felt that well-funded private interest groups and lobbyists had taken the true majoritarian power of democracy away from the voting public.
• B)He felt that modern democratic government had become an unhealthy,pluralistic enterprise.
• C)He believed that among forms of government,only democracy could provide a citizen with the ability to be a "progressive being."
• D)He worried that most citizens are too uninformed to play the role democracy assigns them.
• E)None of these answers is correct.

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