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Howell William - Relic How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government - - And Why We Need A More Powerful Presidency - Hardcover
Howell William - Relic How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government - - And Why We Need A More Powerful Presidency - Hardcover
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Description: 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 at its centre is ill - equipped to address the serious social problems that arise in a complex postindustrial nation. We are prisoners of the past burdened with an antiquated government that cannot make effective policy and often cannot do anything at all. The solution is to update the Constitution for modern times. This can be accomplished Howell and Moe argue through reforms that push Congress and all its pathologies to the periphery of the lawmaking process and bring presidents whose concern for their legacy drives them to seek coherent policy solutions to the centre of decision making. As Howell and Moe reveal the key to effective government for modern America is a more powerful presidency. Relic is a provocative and essential book for our era of political dysfunction and popular despair. It sheds new light on what is wrong with our government and what can be done about it challenging us to reconsider the very foundation of the American experiment.
Title: Relic How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government - - And Why We Need A More Powerful Presidency
Author(s): Howell William
Publisher: Basic Books
Barcode: 9780465042692
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/26/2016
Category: Constitution: Government & The State
Description: 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 at its centre is ill - equipped to address the serious social problems that arise in a complex postindustrial nation. We are prisoners of the past burdened with an antiquated government that cannot make effective policy and often cannot do anything at all. The solution is to update the Constitution for modern times. This can be accomplished Howell and Moe argue through reforms that push Congress and all its pathologies to the periphery of the lawmaking process and bring presidents whose concern for their legacy drives them to seek coherent policy solutions to the centre of decision making. As Howell and Moe reveal the key to effective government for modern America is a more powerful presidency. Relic is a provocative and essential book for our era of political dysfunction and popular despair. It sheds new light on what is wrong with our government and what can be done about it challenging us to reconsider the very foundation of the American experiment.
Title: Relic How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government - - And Why We Need A More Powerful Presidency
Author(s): Howell William
Publisher: Basic Books
Barcode: 9780465042692
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/26/2016
Category: Constitution: Government & The State
