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^{553} Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam, and Russell J. Dalton, «What’s Troubling the Trilateral Democracies», in Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, eds., Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 9–10.

^{554} James Allan Davis and Tom W. Smith, General Social Surveys, 1972–2000 [machine-readable data file] (Storrs, CT: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research).

^{555} Thomas E. Patterson, The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainity (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. 4–5.

^{556} David S. Broder, Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money (New York: Harcourt, 2000), p. 3, 6–7; Economist, 9 November 2002, p. 30.

^{557} Ernest Renan, «What Is a Nation?», in Geoff Eley and Ronald Gripor Suny, eds., Becoming National: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 41–55. См. Bernard Yack’s discussion in «The Myth of the Civic Nation», Critical Review, 10 (Spring 1996), p. 197–98.

^{558} Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Vintage, 1954), vol.1, p. 334–335.

^{559} Patrick Glynn, «Prelude to a Post-Secular Society», New Perspectives Quarterly, 12 (Spring 1995), p. 17.

^{560} Paul Kurtz, Chairman of the Center for Inquiry, quoted in New York Times, 24 August 2002, p. http://www.forf.org/news/2002/nyt1.html].