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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الصفحة xiv
H. Roelofs. economic problems on an international scale , population and immigra- tion explosions , disease epidemics , new kinds of foreign affairs prob- lems , ecological crises of unprecedented dimensions , and the tangled ...
H. Roelofs. economic problems on an international scale , population and immigra- tion explosions , disease epidemics , new kinds of foreign affairs prob- lems , ecological crises of unprecedented dimensions , and the tangled ...
الصفحة xvi
... tion . It would require rethinking the most profound fundamentals of American political thought and commitment . It would entail recast- ing the powers and responsibilities of the several branches of govern- ment , especially of ...
... tion . It would require rethinking the most profound fundamentals of American political thought and commitment . It would entail recast- ing the powers and responsibilities of the several branches of govern- ment , especially of ...
الصفحة 2
... tion notwithstanding , the predominant American religious commitment is to an evangelical , biblical Protestantism that has infected not only all the major religious institutions but many other aspects of American life as well . The ...
... tion notwithstanding , the predominant American religious commitment is to an evangelical , biblical Protestantism that has infected not only all the major religious institutions but many other aspects of American life as well . The ...
الصفحة 3
... tion is the root paradox of the American political system . It is the funda- mental ambiguity to which the country's founders did not attend , and it has never been resolved . We will examine it and return to it again and again ...
... tion is the root paradox of the American political system . It is the funda- mental ambiguity to which the country's founders did not attend , and it has never been resolved . We will examine it and return to it again and again ...
الصفحة 4
... tion is an affront to basic moral imperatives of our political life — and a paradox . What is the fundamental meaning of " one man , one vote " ? What is its practical meaning ? Does it have any at all ? 3. At the level of ...
... tion is an affront to basic moral imperatives of our political life — and a paradox . What is the fundamental meaning of " one man , one vote " ? What is its practical meaning ? Does it have any at all ? 3. At the level of ...
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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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