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Four Threats - The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (Hardcover)
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Four Threats - The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (Hardcover)
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While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics,
most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are
invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that
the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from
the earliest days of the republic to the present. In Four Threats,
Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in
history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the
Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These
episodes risked profound - even fatal - damage to the American
democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct
characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarisation,
racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive
power - alone or in combination - have threatened the survival of
the republic, but it has survived - so far. What is unique, and
alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all
four conditions exist. This convergence marks the contemporary era
as a grave moment for democracy. But history provides a valuable
repository from which we can draw lessons about how democracy was
eventually strengthened - or weakened - in the past. By revisiting
how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the
principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can see the promise
and the peril that have led us to today and chart a path toward
repairing our civic fabric and renewing democracy.
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