American Democracy in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Democracy in Crisis write by Jeanne Sheehan. This book was released on 2021-01-02. American Democracy in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges—everything from record levels of personal and national debt and the sky high cost of education, to gun violence, racial discrimination, an immigration crisis, overpriced pharmaceuticals, and much more—the government seems paralyzed and unable to act, the most recent example being Covid-19. It’s the deadliest pandemic in over a century. In addition to an unimaginable sick and death toll, it has left more than thirty million Americans unemployed. Despite this, Washington let the first round of supplemental unemployment benefits run out and for more than a month were unable to agree on a bill to help those suffering. This book explains why we are in this situation, why the government is unable to respond to key challenges, and what we can do to right the ship. It requires that readers “upstream,” stop blaming the individuals in office and instead look at the root cause of the problem. The real culprit is the system; it was designed to protect liberty and structured accordingly. As a result, however, it has left us with a government that is not responsive, largely unaccountable, and often ineffective. This is not an accident; it is by design. Changing the way our government operates requires rethinking its primary goal(s) and then restructuring to meet them. To this end, this book offers specific reform proposals to restructure the government and in the process make it more accountable, effective, and responsive.
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy write by William G. Howell. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To counter the threat America faces, two political scientists offer “clear constitutional solutions that break sharply with the conventional wisdom” (Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die). Has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government—and if democracy is to be saved, the causes of the crisis must be understood and defused. The most visible cause is Donald Trump, who has used his presidency to attack the nation’s institutions and violate its democratic norms. Yet Trump is but a symptom of causes that run much deeper: social forces like globalization, automation, and immigration that for decades have generated economic harms and cultural anxieties that our government has been wholly ineffective at addressing. Millions of Americans have grown angry and disaffected, and populist appeals have found a receptive audience. These were the drivers of Trump’s dangerous presidency, and they’re still there for other populists to weaponize. What can be done? The disruptive forces of modernity cannot be stopped. The solution lies, instead, in having a government that can deal with them—which calls for aggressive new policies, but also for institutional reforms that enhance its capacity for effective action. The path to progress is filled with political obstacles, including an increasingly populist, anti-government Republican Party. It is hard to be optimistic. But if the challenge is to be met, we need reforms of the presidency itself—reforms that harness the promise of presidential power for effective government, but firmly protect against that power being put to anti-democratic ends.
American Democracy in Crisis
American Democracy in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Democracy in Crisis write by Naomi Rockler. This book was released on 2024. American Democracy in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol was a crisis point for American democracy, but the crisis is not over. American democracy is threatened by deep political polarization, the spread of misinformation, voter suppression, and extremist violence. As young Americans inherit this country, they may be in a position to help repair democracy.
Four Crises of American Democracy
Four Crises of American Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Crises of American Democracy write by Alasdair Scott Roberts. This book was released on 2017. Four Crises of American Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Four Crises of American Democracy, Alasdair Roberts puts democratic malaise in the United States in perspective. He describes four distinct "democratic crises" over the past century, and describes how government changed in response to each crisis. The institutions of American democracy, Roberts says, are more flexible than is often appreciated.
The Confidence Trap
The Confidence Trap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Confidence Trap write by David Runciman. This book was released on 2017-10-31. The Confidence Trap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis—and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama. In The Confidence Trap, David Runciman shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them—and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything—a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap.
