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America's Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem

America's Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem

Goidel, Kirby

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1442247509
ISBN13: 9781442247505
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 9 2015
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
America's Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem, makes the controversial claim that the American political system suffers from too much democracy. An accomplished public policy expert coeditor of the Journal Survey Practice, Kirby Goidel argues that our elected officials are overly responsive to public opinion which is often poorly informed, incoherent, and uncertain. The result is a more polarized political system, rising inequality, and institutional gridlock. These concerns are not new but take on deeper political significance in a digital age where information flows more quickly and opportunities for feedback are virtually unlimited. If the diagnosis is too much democracy, the counterintuitive solution runs against our cultural norms--less citizen involvement, greater discretion for political elites, and greater collective responsibility.

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