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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... body of the new nation could refer , without thought , question , or argument . The critic who before a broad audience questions a society's hirst prin- ciples attacks not only those principles but also the mood of certainty and ...
... body of the new nation could refer , without thought , question , or argument . The critic who before a broad audience questions a society's hirst prin- ciples attacks not only those principles but also the mood of certainty and ...
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... 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 cabinet system , such as Canada's . 4. The preamble of the ...
... 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 cabinet system , such as Canada's . 4. The preamble of the ...
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... bodies — not as law - making bodies but as arenas and agencies for harmonizing the competing claims of elite - dominated interest groups . These bodies , in this light , do not so much Serve citizens as they repre- sent client groups ...
... bodies — not as law - making bodies but as arenas and agencies for harmonizing the competing claims of elite - dominated interest groups . These bodies , in this light , do not so much Serve citizens as they repre- sent client groups ...
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... body .... We shall find that the God of Israel is among us , when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies , when He shall make us a praise and glory , that men shall say of succeeding plantations : " The Lord make it ...
... body .... We shall find that the God of Israel is among us , when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies , when He shall make us a praise and glory , that men shall say of succeeding plantations : " The Lord make it ...
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... body to work for it alone , but he lives also for all men on earth ; rather , he lives only for others and not for himself . " 31 The point of making this contrast is not to show that one or the other of the two perspectives is better ...
... body to work for it alone , but he lives also for all men on earth ; rather , he lives only for others and not for himself . " 31 The point of making this contrast is not to show that one or the other of the two perspectives is better ...
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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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