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Author : Michael J. Sandel
Release : 1998-02-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 459/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy’s Discontent by : Michael J. Sandel
Download or read book Democracy’s Discontent written by Michael J. Sandel. This book was released on 1998-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On American democracy
Author : Gordon S. Black
Release : 1994-03-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Politics of American Discontent by : Gordon S. Black
Download or read book The Politics of American Discontent written by Gordon S. Black. This book was released on 1994-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans' dissatisfaction with government is at an all-time high. Drawing on an inside track on Washington, leading political pollster Gordon Black paints a compelling portrait of a government out of control and provides persuasive evidence that a new party could get it back on track. 50-60 charts/graphs/tables.
Author : John L. Campbell
Release : 2018-05-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 454/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Discontent by : John L. Campbell
Download or read book American Discontent written by John L. Campbell. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike were left scratching their heads-how did this happen? In American Discontent, John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's success by focusing on the long-developing economic, racial, ideological, and political shifts that enabled Trump to win the White House. Campbell argues that Trump's rise to power was the culmination of a half-century of deep, slow-moving change in America, beginning with the decline of the Golden Age of prosperity that followed the Second World War. The worsening economic anxieties of many Americans reached a tipping point when the 2008 financial crisis and Barack Obama's election, as the first African American president, finally precipitated the worst political gridlock in generations. Americans were fed up and Trump rode a wave of discontent all the way to the White House. Campbell emphasizes the deep structural and historical factors that enabled Trump's rise to power. Since the 1970s and particularly since the mid-1990s, conflicts over how to restore American economic prosperity, how to cope with immigration and racial issues, and the failings of neoliberalism have been gradually dividing liberals from conservatives, whites from minorities, and Republicans from Democrats. Because of the general ideological polarization of politics, voters were increasingly inclined to believe alternative facts and fake news. Grounded in the underlying economic and political changes in America that stretch back decades, American Discontent provides a short, accessible, and nonpartisan explanation of Trump's rise to power.
Author : Anita L. Allen
Release : 1998
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Debating Democracy's Discontent by : Anita L. Allen
Download or read book Debating Democracy's Discontent written by Anita L. Allen. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and provocative volume, some of the world's leading political and constitutional theorists come together to debate Michael Sandel's celebrated thesis that the United States is in the the grip of a flawed public philosophy - "procedural liberalism". Beginning with an originalstage-setting introduction by Ronald Beiner, and ending with a reply by Michael Sandel, Sandel's liberal and feminist critics square off with his communitarian and civic republican sympathizers in a lively and wide-ranging discussion spanning constitutional law, culture, and political economy.Practical, topical issues of immigration, gay marriage, federalism, adoption, abortion, corporate speech, militias, and economic disparity are debated alongside theories of civic virtue, citizenship, identity, and community. Not only does this volume provide the most comprehensive and insightfulcritique of Sandel's Democracy's Discontent to date - it also makes a very significant, substantive contribution to contemporary political and legal philosophy in its own right. It will prove essential reading for all those interested in the future of American politics, law, and publicphilosophy.
Author : Steven E. Schier
Release : 2013-07-18
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis American Government and Popular Discontent by : Steven E. Schier
Download or read book American Government and Popular Discontent written by Steven E. Schier. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America’s most pressing political problems. How did U.S. politics get to this point? Contemporary American politics got much of its shape from the transformations brought about from the 1950s to the 1980s. Presidential and congressional behavior, voting behavior, public opinion, public policy and federalism were all reconfigured during that time and many of those changes persist to this day and structure the political environment in the early twenty-first century. Throughout American history, parties have been a reliable instrument for translating majority preferences into public policy. From the 1950s to the 1980s, a gradual antiparty realignment, alongside the growth of professional government, produced a new American political system of remarkable durability – and remarkable dysfunction. It is a system that is paradoxically stable despite witnessing frequent shifts in party control of the institutions of government at the state and national level. Schier and Eberly's system-level view of American politics demonstrates the disconnect between an increasingly polarized and partisan elite and an increasingly disaffected mass public.
