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 xvi
... understanding of the powers and responsibilities of a modern gov- ernment in a large , highly developed , technologically , culturally , and morally advanced nation beset by seemingly intractable social and economic problems . This is a ...
... understanding of the powers and responsibilities of a modern gov- ernment in a large , highly developed , technologically , culturally , and morally advanced nation beset by seemingly intractable social and economic problems . This is a ...
الصفحة xxii
... understandings of fun- damental features of human nature to intricate procedural niceties about how to pass laws . The sum of them is the political system . This understanding of politics is essentially Kantian , and so is the tech ...
... understandings of fun- damental features of human nature to intricate procedural niceties about how to pass laws . The sum of them is the political system . This understanding of politics is essentially Kantian , and so is the tech ...
الصفحة xxiv
... understandings of themselves and each other ( Ask the atom , " Do you have any idea of what you are doing ? " ) , our chances of clarifying success are slim . No public opinion poll vet devised could plumb and then expose the ...
... understandings of themselves and each other ( Ask the atom , " Do you have any idea of what you are doing ? " ) , our chances of clarifying success are slim . No public opinion poll vet devised could plumb and then expose the ...
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... understanding about who we were in relationship to each other in our shared home . Equally , if the United States urgently calls a conference of assorted na- tions about a particular project , and , lo , they all come and , moreover ...
... understanding about who we were in relationship to each other in our shared home . Equally , if the United States urgently calls a conference of assorted na- tions about a particular project , and , lo , they all come and , moreover ...
الصفحة 13
... understanding of the processes in them requires going beyond physical appearances . It re- quires a grasp of the ... understandings of basic terms of in- ternational relations , such as " sovereignty " and " national interest , " would ...
... understanding of the processes in them requires going beyond physical appearances . It re- quires a grasp of the ... understandings of basic terms of in- ternational relations , such as " sovereignty " and " national interest , " would ...
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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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