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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... 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 of them questions the rules themselves or where the lines are to be drawn , suddenly the ...
... 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 of them questions the rules themselves or where the lines are to be drawn , suddenly the ...
الصفحة xvi
... called free - enterprise capitalist system , 5. Washington , D.C. , should be preserved as a city of monuments and museums , and the operative capital of the nation should be moved to some more central location , such as St. Louis or ...
... called free - enterprise capitalist system , 5. Washington , D.C. , should be preserved as a city of monuments and museums , and the operative capital of the nation should be moved to some more central location , such as St. Louis or ...
الصفحة xvii
... called " the Amer- ican field " an increased desire to determine , in these haz- ardous times , the fundamental character and limitations of the American political system as a whole . I had hoped to engi- neer a kind of mini ...
... called " the Amer- ican field " an increased desire to determine , in these haz- ardous times , the fundamental character and limitations of the American political system as a whole . I had hoped to engi- neer a kind of mini ...
الصفحة xxi
... called the behavioral ap- proach . With a fascination akin to that of natural scientists , the behavioralists try to stick to the facts as they really are , as they present themselves immediately in observable , repeti- tive , and ...
... called the behavioral ap- proach . With a fascination akin to that of natural scientists , the behavioralists try to stick to the facts as they really are , as they present themselves immediately in observable , repeti- tive , and ...
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... called up by America's bourgeois , secular liberal de- mocracy . That ideological democracy focuses first on the state as a ju- ridic , constitutional order encompassing all actors , and then , within this order , at the institutional ...
... called up by America's bourgeois , secular liberal de- mocracy . That ideological democracy focuses first on the state as a ju- ridic , constitutional order encompassing all actors , and then , within this order , at the institutional ...
المحتوى
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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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