Parliamentary America by Maxwell L. Stearns - 9781421448336

Name: Parliamentary America by Maxwell L. Stearns - 9781421448336
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

Parliamentary AmericaThe Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy\nAuthor(s): Maxwell L. Stearns\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421448336, 978-1421448336\nSynopsis\nCan a parliamentary democracy end America's constitutional crisis?\n\nWinner of the IPPY Book Award for Current Events I: Political, Economic, and Foreign Affairs\n\nAmericans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our democracy upside down, with gerrymanders letting representatives choose voters rather than voters choosing them. In Parliamentary America, Maxwell L. Stearns argues that the solution to these complex prob.