Democracy Under Fire : Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History / Lawrence R. Jacobs
พิมพลักษณ์
New York : Oxford University Press, 2022
จำนวนหน้า
x, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
1. The Making of Democratic Vulnerability -- 2. Strong Democracy and Political Representation, 1776-1787 -- 3. The American Form of Democracy, 1796-1836 -- 4. Progressive Frustrations: Institutional Limits and Reform Prophesies, 1880s-1920s -- 5. Political Elites and the Failure to Protect Democratic Institutions, 1960s-1972 -- 6. The Ills of Primary Elections and Democratic Deformation -- 7. Renewing American Democracy and Restraining Political Elites
สาระสังเขป
How did democracy become so vulnerable in America? Donald Trump is a shrill warning of the political system's fragility, but he alone is not the problem. The vulnerability is broader and deeper - and looms still. Even before Trump ran for president, his disdain for the rules and norms of democracy and the US Constitution was well-known by many prominent Republicans who were unable to stop his nomination. Trump's presidency is the culmination of a series of political decisions since the late 18th century that ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologues. 'Democracy Under Fire' provides a readable, if disturbing, history of American democracy and proposes recommendations to restore it.
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