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Divided We Fall - Why Consensus Matters (Hardcover)
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Divided We Fall - Why Consensus Matters (Hardcover)
Series: Geopolitics in the 21st Century
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The Case for Bipartisan Consensus on Economic Policy. Partisan
warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's
opportunity to show the world that democracy can deal
constructively with serious economic challenges. Instead of working
together to mitigate destabilizing problems-slow growth, exploding
inequality, climate change, rising debt-our elected leaders are
sabotaging our economic future by blaming and demonizing each other
in hopes of winning big in the next election. They are weakening
America's capacity for world leadership and the case for democracy
here and abroad. Alice M. Rivlin, with decades of experience in
economic policymaking, argues that there are economic policies that
could lead to sustainable American prosperity more widely shared,
but crafting them requires the tough, time-consuming work of
consensus building and bipartisan negotiation. Political leaders
are acting as though our Constitution embodied a winner-take-all
parliamentary system, when in fact our constitutional separation of
powers rightly requires compromise and consensus building. Rivlin
believes that Americans can and must save our hyperpartisan
politicians from themselves. She makes the case that on many
practical economic issues the public is far less divided than
partisan politicians and sensationalist media would have us
believe. She draws attention to numerous hopeful efforts to bridge
partisan and ideological divides in Washington, in state capitols
and city governments, and communities around the country, and
advocates a major national effort to enable citizens and future
leaders to learn and gain practice in the art of listening to each
other and working together to find common ground. This book is a
practical guide for Americans across the political spectrum who are
agonizing over partisan warfare, incivility, and policy gridlock
and looking for ways they can help to get our democratic policy
process back on a constructive track before it is too late.
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