Author: Mark E. Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646871
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Explores the implications for democracy of declining trust in government and between individuals.
Democracy and Trust
Author: Mark E. Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646871
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Explores the implications for democracy of declining trust in government and between individuals.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646871
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Explores the implications for democracy of declining trust in government and between individuals.
I, Citizen
Author: Tony Woodlief
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641772115
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641772115
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.
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Category : Campaign literature, 1884
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Campaign literature, 1884
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States of North America and Others Whom it May Concern
Author: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States of North America and Others to Whom it May Concern
My Fellow Americans
Author: Michael Waldman
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402200277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402200277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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A Message to Our Fellow Citizens
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Category : Campaign literature, 1928
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Category : Campaign literature, 1928
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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A Declaration to Our Fellow Citizens of the United States, to the Peoples of the World, and to Future Generations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.
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War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.
Forgotten Americans
Author: Isabel Sawhill
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States of North America and Others to Whom it May Concern
Author: Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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