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The Trouble with America
Kenneth J. Long
其他書名
Flawed Government, Failed Society
出版Lexington Books, 2009-01-16
主題Political Science / American Government / NationalPhilosophy / PoliticalPolitical Science / American Government / General
ISBN07391327179780739132715
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cq7dmtdD6cUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.