{"id":343,"date":"2018-04-08T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/?p=343"},"modified":"2018-04-08T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:31:55","slug":"the-potentially-risks-in-modern-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/fourth-blog-democracy\/the-potentially-risks-in-modern-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potentially Risks in Modern Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t believe\u00a0<em>Please Vote for Me\u00a0<\/em>is a completely accurate representation of democracy, it does manage to capture many of the darker aspects present in modern democracy. One example is the role parents play in the election. Throughout the documentary, the three candidates&#8217; parents are shown to essentially run each of the campaigns. Not only do they tell the kids what to say or how to act, Cheng Cheng&#8217;s father even uses his position as police chief to arrange a field trip for the class. Through the parents,\u00a0<em>Please Vote for<\/em> Me seems to indirectly ask: who do you really vote for in an election? While the viewer is able to see the influence of the parents on the individual campaigns, the children in the classroom cannot. Therefore, they have no idea how much the candidates depended on their parents. Obviously it is an elementary school election but it does draw a parallel to interest groups in mature democracies. It is incredibly difficult for a voter in a modern democracy to decipher how much of an impact interest groups had on a given candidates platform.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, I do not believe <em>Please Vote for Me\u00a0<\/em>represents how a healthy democracy works all of the time. But whether its through the parents&#8217; role in the campaigns, or the seemingly natural authoritarian rhetoric deployed by the two male candidates, the documentary certainly presents the less-than-savory elements of democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t believe\u00a0Please Vote for Me\u00a0is a completely accurate representation of democracy, it does manage to capture many of the darker aspects present in modern democracy. One example is the role parents play in the election. Throughout the documentary, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/fourth-blog-democracy\/the-potentially-risks-in-modern-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-blog-democracy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}