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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... mythic level of social democracy ; the other , the ideological level of liberal democracy . Each of these levels is itself fundamentally flawed as a governing system . But it is the division between them that most cripples American ...
... mythic level of social democracy ; the other , the ideological level of liberal democracy . Each of these levels is itself fundamentally flawed as a governing system . But it is the division between them that most cripples American ...
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... mythic and ideological elements in American politics constitute so many perpetually inconclu- sive contests to control and manage the nation's governmental bureau- cracies . In this light , it can be seen that " myth ' and " ideology ...
... mythic and ideological elements in American politics constitute so many perpetually inconclu- sive contests to control and manage the nation's governmental bureau- cracies . In this light , it can be seen that " myth ' and " ideology ...
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... mythic call , it becomes a social democracy . So far as it responds to its ideological summons , it is ( in an important contradiction ) a liberal democracy . Chapter 4 carries the argument still further into the political realm to the ...
... mythic call , it becomes a social democracy . So far as it responds to its ideological summons , it is ( in an important contradiction ) a liberal democracy . Chapter 4 carries the argument still further into the political realm to the ...
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... mythic roles but sometimes mo- mentous ones as well . In contrast , the presidency , discussed in Chapter 6 . is called daily to grand , mythic roles . Promulgating the nation's living myth is that office's primary function . In this ...
... mythic roles but sometimes mo- mentous ones as well . In contrast , the presidency , discussed in Chapter 6 . is called daily to grand , mythic roles . Promulgating the nation's living myth is that office's primary function . In this ...
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... mythic side with a largely Protestant content and the ideological side with a thor- oughly secular , bourgeois content . This means that America is a democracy ambiguously . In its mythic aspirations it is a so- cial democracy ; in its ...
... mythic side with a largely Protestant content and the ideological side with a thor- oughly secular , bourgeois content . This means that America is a democracy ambiguously . In its mythic aspirations it is a so- cial democracy ; in its ...
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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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