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Four Threats - The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (Paperback)
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Four Threats - The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (Paperback)
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An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone
concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The
Post-American World An urgent, historically-grounded take on the
four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we
can do to address them. 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 polarization, 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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