Poverty Of Amer Pol 2Nd EdTemple University Press, 25/06/2010 - 368 من الصفحات Maintaining that the American political system is not working well enough to inspire confidence that it can meet the challenges o four time, H. Mark Roelofs attributes that failure, not to its practitioners, but to its very design. He sees that system as split between its legitimizing self-image, social democracy, and its operational element, liberal democracy. Based on his novel understanding of the American political system, Roelofs presents a devastating and closely reasoned critique that traces our nation's political ills to fundamental flaws in the very design of its founding principles, the character of its major institutions, and the basic pattern of its processes. Dissecting our political and societal problems, he explains the limitations and basic contributions arising from the social democratic/liberal democratic dichotomy that result in our current political poverty. While Roelofs's analysis remains the same as in the earlier edition, in this revised edition he has sharpened and extended the argument and expanded and updated his illustrative materials. Improved bibliographical citations and new diagrams make the book an even more useful teaching tool. |
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الصفحة ix
... Constitution 89 6 Presidential Greatness 111 7 Legislative Supremacy 133 8 Grassroots Barons 155 9 The Bureaucracy 174 A Note on Parties , Elections - and Interests 190 ix III The Poverty of American Politics 10 The Bourgeois ...
... Constitution 89 6 Presidential Greatness 111 7 Legislative Supremacy 133 8 Grassroots Barons 155 9 The Bureaucracy 174 A Note on Parties , Elections - and Interests 190 ix III The Poverty of American Politics 10 The Bourgeois ...
الصفحة xi
... Constitution , not a post - bicentennial celebration of it , and certainly not a post - Cold War victory celebration of it . On the contrary , this book is exclusively an interpretation , and as such it will take sides on many issues ...
... Constitution , not a post - bicentennial celebration of it , and certainly not a post - Cold War victory celebration of it . On the contrary , this book is exclusively an interpretation , and as such it will take sides on many issues ...
الصفحة xiii
... Constitution , and sentences like this abound : " On one point almost all students of the founding era are agreed : The tramers offered in the Constitution perhaps the most brilliant example of collec- tive intellectual genius ...
... Constitution , and sentences like this abound : " On one point almost all students of the founding era are agreed : The tramers offered in the Constitution perhaps the most brilliant example of collec- tive intellectual genius ...
الصفحة xiv
... constitutional analysis . If players in a game honorably argue whether a ball should be called in or out , they are arguing about who is to win , who is to lose , within the con- text and rules of the game they all accept . But if one ...
... constitutional analysis . If players in a game honorably argue whether a ball should be called in or out , they are arguing about who is to win , who is to lose , within the con- text and rules of the game they all accept . But if one ...
الصفحة xv
... Constitution to coalesce the two houses of Congress into one body to which members of the executive cabinet would be held collectively responsible , thereby transforming the American national government from a presidential system into a ...
... Constitution to coalesce the two houses of Congress into one body to which members of the executive cabinet would be held collectively responsible , thereby transforming the American national government from a presidential system into a ...
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II Institutions and OHicers | 87 |
III The Poverty of American Politics | 195 |
Diagrams of the Argument | 259 |
Postscript to the First Edition | 269 |
Postscript to the Second Edition | 271 |
Notes | 275 |
Index | 305 |
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