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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Kobrak |
ISBN: | 1588260232 9781588260239 1588260674 9781588260673 |
OCLC Number: | 48222763 |
Description: | xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Changing Political Environment -- Three-Fifths of the United States -- Why Parties Matter -- The Once-and-Future Party -- The Escalation of Cozy Politics -- Uncontrollable Campaign Costs and Their Consequences -- Pathways to Congressional Decisionmaking -- From Compromised Governance to Democratic Balance -- Agency Compromise and Privatization -- Reinventing Political Parties. |
Responsibility: | Peter Kobrak. |
Abstract:
Cozy politics, this volume contends, is shredding away the fragile fabric of political rapport between citizens and their government in the USA. It explores this insidious system that encourages elected officials to co-operate with their supposed opponents rather than their own constituents.
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This is a penetrating assessment of the money-crazed, low-turnout, pork-barrel system of politics in the United States - a political system spiraling out of control. - Darrell West, Brown University
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