Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/CaOLZ2r The Trouble with America Flawed Government, Failed Society By: Kenneth J. Long Publisher: Lexington Books Print ISBN: 9780739128312, 0739128310 eText ISBN: 9780739132715, 0739132717 Pages: 164 Format: PDF Available from $ 26.70 USD SKU 9780739132715R120 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. Additional ISBNs 9780739128305, 9780739128312, 0739128302, 0739128310, 9780739128305, 0739128302
