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.
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.
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.
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 2022-09-06 with total page 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.
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: 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.
Download or read book American Democracy in Crisis written by Naomi Rockler and published by Referencepoint Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Crisis Of American Democracy written by Jose Parlee and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author gives a persuasive argument to capture the vision of founders to provide for practical tho limited representation of the populace. Democracy in America is being subverted by the rise of a plutocracy, in which Washington insiders play special interest in politics to get their piece of the pie. In the process, they sell out Main Street to bail out Wall Street. How can government by the people be restored in America? A nearly forgotten proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a gift handed down by the Founders in the after-glow of the American Revolution, offers a simple way to dilute the concentration of power in Washington and make the government responsive to the will of the people. This book is a call to action for Americans willing to rise to the challenge of winning the American Revolution.
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.
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:
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.
Download or read book The Crisis Of American Democracy written by Krystle Bentivegna and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author gives a persuasive argument to capture the vision of founders to provide for practical tho limited representation of the populace. Democracy in America is being subverted by the rise of a plutocracy, in which Washington insiders play special interest in politics to get their piece of the pie. In the process, they sell out Main Street to bail out Wall Street. How can government by the people be restored in America? A nearly forgotten proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a gift handed down by the Founders in the after-glow of the American Revolution, offers a simple way to dilute the concentration of power in Washington and make the government responsive to the will of the people. This book is a call to action for Americans willing to rise to the challenge of winning the American Revolution.
Download or read book The Crisis in American Democracy written by John Harms and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is American Democracy in Crisis written by E.J. Dionne Jr. and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate 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. “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.
Download or read book Subtle Tools written by Karen J. Greenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation’s enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools was brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today’s leading experts on the US security state shows how these “subtle tools” imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from the separation of powers and transparency in government to adherence to the Constitution. Taking readers from Ground Zero to the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Revealing the deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened democracy itself.
Download or read book The Demise of American Democracy written by William Durland J.D. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demise of American Democracy: Understanding the Crisis and Resisting the Threat, 2nd edition, follows a 2016 1st edition, which explained the crisis and what to do about it, from the Reagan administration to the beginning of the 2016 election campaign. Newt Gingrich's Contract With America in 1994 had extended the conservative attempt to de-democratize America. Nixon's abortive autocratic expansions of presidential powers in the early 1970s culminated in his firing of the Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Cox reflected on the debacle by posing the challenge: "Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide." Today a rogue, Tea Party movement, presents us with a similar challenge after the takeover of the once moderate and representative Republican Party. That set the stage for the present crisis in which the government has been faced with its takeover by those who seek its democratic demise as a result of an Electoral College victory by a candidate who received a minority of votes. The election of President Trump and the policies and practices initiated by his administration have made more intense the movement to replace democracy with a conservative autocracy. Americans are now faced with a fundamental attack on the pursuit of justice and the rule of law. A majority has chosen to resist the threat, and to look forward to the restoration of what is being taken away. The story reads like a novel and sounds like a legal brief, summarizing and offering the facts of the attempted demise and alternatives to a dystopian darkness. An eternal light illuminates the way to renew our quest for a more perfect union.
Download or read book Problems in American Democracy written by Thames Williamson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Democracy in the World Crisis written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
