The Chronic Crisis Of American Democracy

Author : Benjamin Studebaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031282108
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy written by Benjamin Studebaker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. The crisis cannot be solved, the economy cannot be set right, and democracy cannot be saved. But American democracy cannot be killed, either. Americans can’t imagine any compelling alternative political systems. And so, American democracy continues on, in a deeply unsatisfying way. Americans invent ever-more elaborate coping mechanisms in a desperate bid to go on. But it becomes increasingly clear that the way is shut. The American political system was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it.

Author : Leland Harper
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648893953
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution written by Leland Harper and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in “The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution” seek to answer central questions about American democracy, such as: if American democracy is failing, what are the causes of this failure? What are the consequences? And what can be done to fix it? These standalone essays present diverse perspectives on some of the impediments to achieving a true democracy in the present-day United States of America, as well as prescriptions for overcoming these obstacles. Leading academics from across North America, contribute their perspectives on this timely debate.

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250244439
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Threats written by Suzanne Mettler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present. In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound—even fatal—damage to the American democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power—alone or in combination—have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived—so far. What is unique, and alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all four conditions exist. This convergence marks the contemporary era as a grave moment for democracy. But history provides a valuable repository from which we can draw lessons about how democracy was eventually strengthened—or weakened—in the past. By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can see the promise and the peril that have led us to today and chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing democracy.

Author : Alasdair Scott Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190459891
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Crises of American Democracy written by Alasdair Scott Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "crisis of representation" occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was centered on the question of whether the people really controlled their government. This period was dominated by fears of plutocracy and debates about the rights of African Americans, women and immigrants. The "crisis of mastery" spanned the years 1917-1948, and was preoccupied with building administrative capabilities so that government could improve its control of economic and international affairs. The "crisis of discipline," beginning in the 1970s, was triggered by the perception that voters and special interests were overloading governments with unreasonable demands. In the final part of his analysis, Roberts asks whether the United States is entering a "crisis of anticipation," in which the question is whether democracies can handle long-term problems like global warming effectively.

Author : Leland Harper
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648891045
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution written by Leland Harper and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in "The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution" seek to answer central questions about American democracy, such as: if American democracy is failing, what are the causes of this failure? What are the consequences? And what can be done to fix it? These standalone essays present diverse perspectives on some of the impediments to achieving a true democracy in the present-day United States of America, as well as prescriptions for overcoming these obstacles. Leading academics from across North America, contribute their perspectives on this timely debate.

Author : K.Sabeel Rahman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842211X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of, For, and By the People written by K.Sabeel Rahman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a richly researched yet concrete agenda for addressing the current crises of American democracy.

Author : Dionne, Jr. (E.J.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781487004514
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is American Democracy in Crisis? written by Dionne, Jr. (E.J.) and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." -- E. J. Dionne, Jr. It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American democracy? For some the answer is an emphatic "yes." Trump's disregard for the institutions and political norms of U.S. democracy is imperiling the Republic. The sooner his presidency collapses the sooner the healing can begin and the ship of state righted. For others Trump is not the villain in this drama. Rather, his young presidency is the conduit, not the cause, of Americans' deep-seated anger towards a privileged and self-dealing Washington elite. Trump's disruption of politics as usual is what America needs to start the process of restoring democracy by the people, for the people. The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate, held on October 12th, 2017, pits award-winning journalist E. J. Dionne, Jr. and influential author and blogger Andrew Sullivan against former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and bestselling author and editor Kimberley Strassel to debate the current crisis of American democracy.

Author : William Durland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495504396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demise of American Democracy written by William Durland and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers evidence of the disintegration and transformation of democratic principles and powers with evidence of domestic and international examples such as the dismantling of domestic representaitive government and disregard and disuse of international organizations.

Author : William E. Hudson
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483368599
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Democracy in Peril written by William E. Hudson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Eighth Edition of American Democracy in Peril, author William E. Hudson provides a perceptive analysis of the challenges our democracy faces in the current era: economic crisis, partisan gridlock, rising economic inequality, and continued military conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere. By introducing the history of democratic theory in terms of four “models” of democracy, he provides readers with a set of criteria against which to evaluate the challenges discussed later. This provocative book offers a structured, yet critical examination of the American political system, designed to stimulate students to consider how the facts they learn about American politics relate to democratic ideals.

Author : Edgar Eugene Robinson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Democracy in Time of Crisis written by Edgar Eugene Robinson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1934 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: