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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... programs - Medicare , Social Security , help for the needy , equal rights — were broadly popular . But liberals were ... program , but they could agree to roll back liberalism . To do so , they used tensions in American life over race ...
... programs - Medicare , Social Security , help for the needy , equal rights — were broadly popular . But liberals were ... program , but they could agree to roll back liberalism . To do so , they used tensions in American life over race ...
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... programs away with arguments that big deficits made them unaffordable . Had not government grown in the early 1960s and 1970s , Gigot asked , when deficits did not figure so prominently in the political debate ? The ambitious plans ...
... programs away with arguments that big deficits made them unaffordable . Had not government grown in the early 1960s and 1970s , Gigot asked , when deficits did not figure so prominently in the political debate ? The ambitious plans ...
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... program Bush proposed when he became president . And although homosexuality is still a difficult issue for many Americans - particularly when it comes to gay marriage - gays and les- bians enjoy an acceptance undreamed of three decades ...
... program Bush proposed when he became president . And although homosexuality is still a difficult issue for many Americans - particularly when it comes to gay marriage - gays and les- bians enjoy an acceptance undreamed of three decades ...
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... program the Republicans offered after their triumph in the 1994 elections . Even those who disagreed with what the Republicans tried to do owed them a debt for clarifying the issues . In the wake of the budget fights of 1995 and 1996 ...
... program the Republicans offered after their triumph in the 1994 elections . Even those who disagreed with what the Republicans tried to do owed them a debt for clarifying the issues . In the wake of the budget fights of 1995 and 1996 ...
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... program , and to bring moder- ate voters into his coalition . Like Clinton , he had a chance to cure the mischiefs of ... programs for the elderly . Bush could have used the unusual way he came to office and his lack of a popular vote ...
... program , and to bring moder- ate voters into his coalition . Like Clinton , he had a chance to cure the mischiefs of ... programs for the elderly . Bush could have used the unusual way he came to office and his lack of a popular vote ...
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III | 31 |
IV | 55 |
VI | 77 |
VII | 98 |
VIII | 116 |
X | 145 |
XI | 147 |
XIII | 170 |
XVII | 259 |
XIX | 283 |
XXI | 300 |
XXIII | 327 |
XXIV | 329 |
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