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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... 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 Perspective Copyrighted Material Contents.
... 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 Perspective Copyrighted Material Contents.
الصفحة xvii
... interests into sociological and psychological prob- lems or climbed into rarefied mathematical and philosophical Speculations . Meanwhile , out there in the real world , public disgust and distrust of politics steadily deepens ...
... interests into sociological and psychological prob- lems or climbed into rarefied mathematical and philosophical Speculations . Meanwhile , out there in the real world , public disgust and distrust of politics steadily deepens ...
الصفحة 2
... interest - seeking liberal democratic state with powerfully sustained elitist tendencies . Since that is the book's substance , and since it is an assertion of such breadth , it would be wise to illustrate its meaning in practical de ...
... interest - seeking liberal democratic state with powerfully sustained elitist tendencies . Since that is the book's substance , and since it is an assertion of such breadth , it would be wise to illustrate its meaning in practical de ...
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... interests . Over all of these entities , both public and private , the president has only the most tangential au- thority . And where in the picture of supposed vast presidential power are we to put the vaunted " grassroots ...
... interests . Over all of these entities , both public and private , the president has only the most tangential au- thority . And where in the picture of supposed vast presidential power are we to put the vaunted " grassroots ...
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... interest groups . These bodies , in this light , do not so much Serve citizens as they repre- sent client groups , and ... interests within the limits set by established law . The next five chapters , which make up Part II Copyrighted ...
... interest groups . These bodies , in this light , do not so much Serve citizens as they repre- sent client groups , and ... interests within the limits set by established law . The next five chapters , which make up Part II Copyrighted ...
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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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