Why Americans Hate PoliticsSimon and Schuster, 2004 - 432 pages In this new edition of his national bestseller, E. J. Dionne brings up to date his influential proposals for a politics that can and must find a balance between rights and obligations, between responsibility and compassion. All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices, " making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process. Now with a new afterword discussing the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the 1992 presidential election, Dionne explores what has gone wrong with the American system and offers a back-to-basics approach to politics designed to respond to the anger of America's restive majority. From the New, Updated Introduction: "At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics." |
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... popular anger about crime . Yet their spots did not solve the problem . Endless arguments about whether the death penalty was a good idea did not put more cops on the street , streamline the criminal justice sys- tem , or deal with the ...
... popular anger about crime . Yet their spots did not solve the problem . Endless arguments about whether the death penalty was a good idea did not put more cops on the street , streamline the criminal justice sys- tem , or deal with the ...
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E.J. Dionne. in popular faith in government . To appeal to an increasingly alienated electorate , candidates and their political consultants adopted a cynical stance that , they believed with good reason , played into popular cyni- cism ...
E.J. Dionne. in popular faith in government . To appeal to an increasingly alienated electorate , candidates and their political consultants adopted a cynical stance that , they believed with good reason , played into popular cyni- cism ...
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... popular leanings on matters of work , faith , and family . William Galston , the political philosopher and former Clinton White House aide , put his finger on the American consensus when he said that most of us were " tolerant ...
... popular leanings on matters of work , faith , and family . William Galston , the political philosopher and former Clinton White House aide , put his finger on the American consensus when he said that most of us were " tolerant ...
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... popular word among Clinton's support- ers . But they were even more distressed with the radical departure that impeachment represented . Most voters did not think the matter pro- vided reason enough to overturn the outcome of a ...
... popular word among Clinton's support- ers . But they were even more distressed with the radical departure that impeachment represented . Most voters did not think the matter pro- vided reason enough to overturn the outcome of a ...
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... popular vote victory over Bush and ( absent bal- lot snafus in Florida ) an electoral vote victory as well . But Gore began the election year running some fifteen points behind Bush . This deficit was not just Gore's . It was also ...
... popular vote victory over Bush and ( absent bal- lot snafus in Florida ) an electoral vote victory as well . But Gore began the election year running some fifteen points behind Bush . This deficit was not just Gore's . It was also ...
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