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The Trouble with America - Flawed Government, Failed Society (Paperback)
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The Trouble with America - Flawed Government, Failed Society (Paperback)
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The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of
American government, focusing on the fatal flaws of America's core
political arrangements. Institutionalized pluralism, the structural
dispersal of power, generates government too weak to solve our
public problems. American constitutionalism, the limitation of
government power and authority, protects property rights far better
than it defends our civil liberties, and it offers little or no
protection for non-citizens. Capitalism is a hyper-competitive and
grossly unfair economic system, which rewards pre-existing wealth
far better than hard work or talent, and encourages petty
materialist consumption of mostly low-quality goods, undermining
taste as well as fairness. Taken together, pluralism,
constitutionalism, and capitalism in America harm our society in a
myriad of ways, leaving us with inadequate representation, poor
leadership, social and political paralysis and irresponsibility,
unrealistic self-images, and scandalously poor domestic and foreign
policies. This book will prove a valuable supplement in American
government courses, an alternative to the centrist material
currently dominating textbooks on this subject.
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