Overview
Explores the broader challenges facing the American political system
Address key issues currently affecting US democracy
Tackles the deeper currents pushing change and transformation among morphing coalitions within the USA
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Institutions of Democracy and the Democratic Rule
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Socio-cultural and Technological Challenges of Democracy
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Populism–Polarization–Protest
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America and Global Democracy
Keywords
- American democracy
- Democracy mobilization
- Democratic representation
- Democratic responsiveness
- Democratic inequality
- Democracy viability
- Democratic partisanship
- Democratic hegemony
- Liberal democracy
- Digital news and democracy
- Party fragmentation
- Fake news and democracy
- US demographic change
- Trump aesthetics
- Democracy and Supreme Court
- America four-party system
- Democracy future of work
- Liberal World Order
- 2018 election
- German Association for American Studies
- us politics
About this book
This edited volume investigates America’s transforming democracy as it faces the challenges and developments of the 21st century—challenges and developments that have brought deep dissatisfaction, cultural fragmentation, and economic indignation. Although political power remains in the hands of the people, a fundamental incapability to compromise has locked policymakers in a permanent stalemate. In this legislative paralysis, grassroots movements build more and more momentum amidst regular protests and civil disobedience. This new political vigor and dynamism is dualistic, portending either a future of falsehoods and authoritarianism or a more empowering and direct form of democracy. This book ultimately seeks to understand how the US government is frantically adjusting to these sharp cultural, technological, and economic changes.
Reviews
“This volume yields tremendous insight into the exceptionally polarized state of American politics today. Authored largely by experts who work outside the United States, the volume presents a unique and valuable perspective and benefits from the inclusion of essays from scholars who are simultaneously able to think carefully and deeply about American politics while being able to do so from a step removed. Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy is recommended for undergraduate and graduate studies alike, as well as for any thoughtful reader who seeks to know more about contemporary American politics from a particularly European perspective.” (Justin S. Vaughn, co-author of Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools (2015))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Michael T. Oswald is Assistant Professor and the Chair for Political Science at the University of Passau, Germany, Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy
Editors: Michael T. Oswald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24792-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24791-1Published: 09 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24794-2Published: 09 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24792-8Published: 30 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 337
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: US Politics, Democracy, Legislative and Executive Politics