Title America's failing experiment : how we the people have become the problem / Kirby Goidel.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : we are the problem -- Constitutional design and democracy -- Political psychology and democratic competence -- Why we vote for economic inequality -- The news media, new media, and democracy -- Gridlock and American political institutions -- First do no harm -- America's recovery plan -- Conclusions.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	In this book, author Kirby Goidel makes the controversial case that the American political system suffers from too much democracy and that the trend toward greater democratization has led to greater citizen frustration, increasing distrust of government, and institutional gridlock.
Subject	Democracy -- United States -- Citizen participation.
	Political participation -- United States.
	Political culture -- United States.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
	Democracy -- Citizen participation. (OCoLC)fst00890079
	Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
	Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Other Form:	Print version: Goidel, Robert K., 1967- America's failing experiment. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] 9781442226500 (DLC) 2013031601 (OCoLC)859061383
ISBN	144222651X (electronic bk.)
	9781442226517 (electronic bk.)

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