America's Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem
Book Details
Author(s)Kirby Goidel
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN / ASIN1442226501
ISBN-139781442226500
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Sales Rank511,480
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
America’s Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem, makes the controversial claim that the American political system suffers from too much democracy. An accomplished public policy expert co-editor of the Journal Survey Practice, Kirby Goidel makes the provocative claim that our elected officials are overly responsive to public opinion which is often poorly informed, incoherent, and uncertain. The result is a more polarized political system, rising inequality, and institutional gridlock. These concerns are not new but take on deeper political significance in a digital age where information flows more quickly and opportunities for feedback are virtually unlimited. If the diagnosis is too much democracy, the counterintuitive solution runs against our cultural norms—less citizen involvement, greater discretion for political elites, and greater collective responsibility.
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