American Democracy in Peril: Eight Challenges to America's Future

by William E. Hudson

Book Overview

In this Eighth Edition author William E. Hudson provides a perceptive analysis of the challenges U.S democracy faces in the current era: economic crisis, partisan gridlock, rising economic inequality, and continued military conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483368580
• ISBN13: 9781483368580
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: CQ Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Provocative and Insightful

This book does a great job at exposing some of the serious structural problems that threaten the future of democracy in the U.S. I highly recommend it for students and scholars of the American political system.

Well thought out and persuasive

I am a college student at Temple University and I had to read this book for my political science class. I thought this book was very well thought out and persuasive. In the book, Hudson explains eight reasons why America falls short of being a true democracy. I learned very much from this book and I suggest it to somebody who wants to learn about the United States' democratic system and how it could work better!