02523oam 22003975 450 991068255770332120240819153327.03-031-28210-810.1007/978-3-031-28210-2(PPN)279827512(CKB)5580000000524732(DE-He213)978-3-031-28210-2(EXLCZ)99558000000052473220230317d2023 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe chronic crisis of American democracy the way is shut /Benjamin Studebaker1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) illustrations (some color)3-031-28209-4 Chapter 1. The Unsolvable Problem -- Chapter 2. False Hope -- Chapter 3. Chronic Crisis -- Chapter 4. Dream Eating Democracy -- Chapter 5. No Escape -- Chapter 6. What if This Book is Wrong?This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. The crisis cannot be solved, the economy cannot be set right, and democracy cannot be saved. But American democracy cannot be killed, either. Americans can’t imagine any compelling alternative political systems. And so, American democracy continues on, in a deeply unsatisfying way. Americans invent ever-more elaborate coping mechanisms in a desperate bid to go on. But it becomes increasingly clear that the way is shut. The American political system was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it.Representative government and representationUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic conditions21st centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government21st centuryRepresentative government and representation320.9Studebaker Benjaminauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1354617BOOK9910682557703321The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy3346415UNINA