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The Trouble with America
Flawed Government, Failed Society
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2009
Summary
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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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2830-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3271-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
132
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Contents No access
List of Tables No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Where the Trouble Lies No access
Chapter 01. Pluralism and Its Discontents No access
Chapter 02. Constitutionalism and the Limitation of Virtue No access
Chapter 03. Capitalism and the Ethos of Greed No access
Chapter 04. Making a Mess of Things at Home: The American Domestic Policy Environment No access
Chapter 05. A Menace to the World: The American Foreign Policy Environment No access
Postscript: Is America Reparable? No access Pages 111 - 116
