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William G. Howell

Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--And Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency

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Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding?In Relic , William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they created, with a parochial Congress at its centre, is ill-… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Moe, Terry M.
  • ISBN: 978-0-465-04269-2
  • EAN: 9780465042692
  • Produktnummer: 20588694
  • Verlag: Basic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.4 cm x D3.0 cm 373 g
  • Gewicht: 373

Über den Autor


William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago. His The Wartime President won the William Riker award for the best book in political economy.Terry M. Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Moe is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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