Author: Jules AbelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Degeneration of Our Presidential Election. An American Institution in Trouble
Author: Jules AbelsThe Degeneration of Our Presidential Election
Author: Jules AbelsPublisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Danger Of Democracy
Author: Terry SanfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Quail hunte rs appreciate a bird dog that doesn't give up ,th at ch ases the last bird after a covey rises, that is joyouslyunwilling to let even one get away . Old Pal was such a pointer ,an d on one day he leaped for a last fluttering single , missed ,of course, but, sad to say, leaped also over a sixty-foot cliffinto the icy Flint River. The moral is that he was going afterthe right bird b ut he wasn 't looking where he was going.The political party, with new rules calculated to open thepresidential nominating process, to involve more people ,to reach the ultimate in democracy , may find itself in thesame plight as th e conscientious pointer. It is possible to goover the cliff in reaching for too much democracy . Somethink the parties have already fallen into the river .
The Great Degeneration
Author: Niall FergusonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125524
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.
Dollarocracy
Author: John NicholsPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568587112
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before. As the money gets bigger -- especially after the Citizens United ruling -- and journalism, a core check and balance on the government, declines, American citizens are in danger of becoming less informed and more open to manipulation. With groundbreaking behind-the-scenes reporting and staggering new research on "the money power," Dollarocracy shows that this new power does not just endanger electoral politics; it is a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself.
Electoral Reform
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional AmendmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Electoral Reform
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House
Author: David E. JohnsonPublisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 9781589791503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book profiles eighteen of our funniest elections, from 1828, the first election in which all states had electors, to the election from hell in 2000. The book also includes chapters on Watergate and impeachment, and a gallery of official photographs.
Department of State News Letter
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography
Author: Michael J. BlouinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000471640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography considers campaign biographies written by major authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Lew Wallace, Jacob Riis, and Rose Wilder Lane. Whereas a number of cultural historians have previously considered campaign biographies to be marginal or isolated from the fictional output of these figures, this volume revisits the biographies in order to understand better how they inform, and are informed by, seismic shifts in the literary landscape. The book illuminates the intersection of American literature and politics while charting how the Presidency has developed in the public imagination. In so doing, it poses questions of increasing significance about how we understand the office as well as its occupants today.