Given recent events it seems that an understanding of how government related systems work e.g. democracy, capitalism, legal etc. And I'm not talking about how t

Given recent events it seems that an understanding of how government related systems work e.g. democracy, capitalism, legal etc. And I'm not talking about how to participate at a practical/individual level, I mean how these systems benefit society and what dangers the population needs to guard against to ensure that they continue to work.