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The Trouble with America: Flawed Government, Failed Society by Kenneth J. Long (Hardcover, 2009)

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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.

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Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN-13
9780739128305
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108121618

Product Key Features

Author
Kenneth J. Long
Publication Name
The Trouble with America: Flawed Government, Failed Society
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
164 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
240mm
Item Width
161mm
Item Weight
390g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Kenneth J. Long
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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