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Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
William G. Howell
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Description for Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 150 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding?In Relic , William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they created, with a parochial Congress ... Read more
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding?In Relic , William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they created, with a parochial Congress ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465042692
SKU
V9780465042692
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About William G. Howell
William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago. His The Wartime President won the William Riker award for the best book in political economy.Terry M. Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Moe is a member of the ... Read more
Reviews for Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
The case for constitutional reform in Relic is the best
certainly the most realistic
in many years... Just getting people to think seriously about constitutional reform would be progress. The cogent analysis in Relic helps to achieve that goal.
Wall Street Journal Focused, committed, convincing, and composed in moderate language that will appeal to those all along the political continuum. ... Read more
certainly the most realistic
in many years... Just getting people to think seriously about constitutional reform would be progress. The cogent analysis in Relic helps to achieve that goal.
Wall Street Journal Focused, committed, convincing, and composed in moderate language that will appeal to those all along the political continuum. ... Read more