The chronic crisis of American democracy : the way is shut / Benjamin Studebaker.
Studebaker, Benjamin, author.
2023
JK1021 .S88 2023
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Title The chronic crisis of American democracy : the way is shut / Benjamin Studebaker.
Author Studebaker, Benjamin, author.
ISBN 9783031282102 electronic book
3031282108 electronic book
9783031282096
3031282094
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2 doi
Call Number JK1021 .S88 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.973
Summary This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. The crisis cannot be solved, the economy cannot be set right, and democracy cannot be saved. But American democracy cannot be killed, either. Americans can't imagine any compelling alternative political systems. And so, American democracy continues on, in a deeply unsatisfying way. Americans invent ever-more elaborate coping mechanisms in a desperate bid to go on. But it becomes increasingly clear that the way is shut. The American political system was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. Benjamin Studebaker received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2023).
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Chapter 1. The Unsolvable Problem
Chapter 2. False Hope
Chapter 3. Chronic Crisis
Chapter 4. Dream Eating Democracy
Chapter 5. No Escape
Chapter 6. What if This Book is Wrong?

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