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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... less constantly distinguishes , with more or less constant contradiction , between the onstage roles political officials play before the public and their offstage roles with each other . Because of this deep - seated ( and , in the end ...
... less constantly distinguishes , with more or less constant contradiction , between the onstage roles political officials play before the public and their offstage roles with each other . Because of this deep - seated ( and , in the end ...
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... to be more right than their neighbors , but socially they veer dan- gerously toward being minorities of even less than one . How can constitutional critics be heard ? Is it possible Copyrighted Material xiv Preface to the First Edition.
... to be more right than their neighbors , but socially they veer dan- gerously toward being minorities of even less than one . How can constitutional critics be heard ? Is it possible Copyrighted Material xiv Preface to the First Edition.
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... less average characteristic of actual pennies ; it is the ideal revealed in the intention to make them all round . Note , too , that we could have leapt to the idea of pure circularity from having looked at just one penny - even a bent ...
... less average characteristic of actual pennies ; it is the ideal revealed in the intention to make them all round . Note , too , that we could have leapt to the idea of pure circularity from having looked at just one penny - even a bent ...
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... in a political sense , a Christian republic , much less specifically a Protestant one . One need look no further than to the nation's founding documents , the Declaration of independence Copyrighted Material 2 Introduction.
... in a political sense , a Christian republic , much less specifically a Protestant one . One need look no further than to the nation's founding documents , the Declaration of independence Copyrighted Material 2 Introduction.
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... less approving , before whom the situation is played out . We can speculate that even my tender - aged child is sensitive to the smiles and nods of approval that greet docile behavior . Gaining that approval may well be a partial motive ...
... less approving , before whom the situation is played out . We can speculate that even my tender - aged child is sensitive to the smiles and nods of approval that greet docile behavior . Gaining that approval may well be a partial motive ...
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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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