Download or read book Democracy Under Construction written by Wyoming Humanities Council and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy Under Construction demonstrates Wyoming Humanities' unique ability to bring together a network of individuals and organizations to complete a project that helps our state explore the human experience. Like all of our work, this publication is the result of extensive collaboration-from a wide and diverse array of funders to the myriad scholars, experts, and authors who provided generous gifts of time, intellect, and writing.This book was conceived as a second volume to our popular Heal Up and Hair Over: A Wyoming Civility Reader, which was distributed from 2013 to 2018. This new volume was partially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the "Democracy and the Informed Citizen" initiative to which every state council could apply for funds to support projects that examine the connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry. As part of our project in Wyoming, we explored the issue of civility in journalism and social media and how it is eroding the public trust in the institutions of democracy.