Civic Failure and Its Threat to Democracy

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The greatest threat to American democracy is the voting public. Candidates for political office, organized interests, and political parties are often blamed for the ills of American democracy, but this book places the focus on the core issue in American politics: a disengaged, demanding, and often contradictory voting public. Structural reforms such as the direct primary, term limits, and campaign finance regime reforms make the problems worse rather than better because these structural reforms fail to address core issues that disengage the voting public from republican politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-14
Mått:159 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498514194

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Chapman Rackaway is professor of political science at Fort Hays State University.

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Chapman Rackaway has given us an important entry in a revitalized civic education literature. This book is a primer in civic failure, where voter apathy, ignorance, and the mismatch of citizen policy expectations with the mechanics of democracy have led to a mass abandonment of civic duty and the decline of citizenship as an ideal in the mass public. Serious students of civic education will appreciate the theoretical advancements and novel data and analysis, while policy makers at all levels of government would do well to take to heart the lessons on civic decline and the solutions proposed in Civic Failure. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the state of civics and the capacity for real change in American politics today.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Sowing the Seeds of Civic FailureChapter 2: A Primer on Republican DemocracyChapter 3: Taking the Parties OutChapter 4: The Effects of Partisan DeclineChapter 5: The Semi-Sovereign MediaChapter 6: The State of the American VoterChapter 7: The Dream and the Nightmare of Term LimitsChapter 8: The Promise and the Despair of Campaign Finance ReformChapter 9: Leading By Following, or The Unreasonable Expectations on the Political ClassChapter 10: Look Forward, AngelChapter 11: A Pathway to American Revival