LEADER 02523oam 22003975 450 001 9910682557703321 005 20240819153327.0 010 $a3-031-28210-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2 035 $a(PPN)279827512 035 $a(CKB)5580000000524732 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-28210-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000524732 100 $a20230317d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe chronic crisis of American democracy $ethe way is shut /$fBenjamin Studebaker 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 0 $a3-031-28209-4 327 $aChapter 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? 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aRepresentative government and representation$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 607 $aUnited States$zPolitics and government$y21st century 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation 676 $a320.9 700 $aStudebaker$b Benjamin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01354617 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910682557703321 996 $aThe Chronic Crisis of American Democracy$93346415 997 $aUNINA