For the People?: Democratic Representation in America

by Charles R. Beitz

Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests. Unprecedented levels of elite polarization, severe partisan gerrymandering, weakened party institutions, easing of restrictions on campaign finance, and other forces-all in the context of rising levels of economic inequality-produce dysfunction that subverts healthy political competition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197780431
• ISBN13: 9780197780435
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.9"