The Increasingly United States - 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 Increasingly United States write by Daniel J. Hopkins. This book was released on 2018-05-30. The Increasingly United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a campaign for state or local office these days, you’re as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because American political behavior has become substantially more nationalized. American voters are far more engaged with and knowledgeable about what’s happening in Washington, DC, than in similar messages whether they are in the South, the Northeast, or the Midwest. Gone are the days when all politics was local. With The Increasingly United States, Daniel J. Hopkins explores this trend and its implications for the American political system. The change is significant in part because it works against a key rationale of America’s federalist system, which was built on the assumption that citizens would be more strongly attached to their states and localities. It also has profound implications for how voters are represented. If voters are well informed about state politics, for example, the governor has an incentive to deliver what voters—or at least a pivotal segment of them—want. But if voters are likely to back the same party in gubernatorial as in presidential elections irrespective of the governor’s actions in office, governors may instead come to see their ambitions as tethered more closely to their status in the national party.
Forgotten Americans
Forgotten Americans - 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 Forgotten Americans write by Isabel Sawhill. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Forgotten Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong
Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong - 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 Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong write by Kathleen Hall Jamieson. This book was released on 2000-06-23. Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A media expert and network commentator examines the welter of misinformation--generated by politicians and the media alike--that surrounds political campaigns.
The American Commonwealth
The American Commonwealth - 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 American Commonwealth write by James Bryce. This book was released on 1891. The American Commonwealth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
It's Even Worse Than It Looks - 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 It's Even Worse Than It Looks write by Thomas E. Mann. This book was released on 2016-04-05. It's Even Worse Than It Looks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime.In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress -- and the United States -- to the brink of institutional collapse. The first is the serious mismatch between our political parties, which have become as vehemently adversarial as parliamentary parties, and a governing system that, unlike a parliamentary democracy, makes it extremely difficult for majorities to act. Second, while both parties participate in tribal warfare, both sides are not equally culpable. The political system faces what the authors call &"asymmetric polarization," with the Republican Party implacably refusing to allow anything that might help the Democrats politically, no matter the cost.With dysfunction rooted in long-term political trends, a coarsened political culture and a new partisan media, the authors conclude that there is no &"silver bullet"; reform that can solve everything. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring of the House and Senate, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle. Until voters learn to act strategically to reward problem solving and punish obstruction, American democracy will remain in serious danger.
