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Chargement... Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives (Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics,par Juliet Eilperin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 4225 Fight Club Politics How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives, by Juliet Eilperin (read 2 Nov 2006) This is a 2006 book on the sorry state of the House of Representatives, where the GOP right wing arrogantly determines it need not pay any attention to the Democrats. The book shows the Democrats in bygone times could be arbitrary too, but the Democrats were less monolithic than are today's Republican majority. This book is even-handed but it was not fun to read. There is an interesting chapter on redistricting, which is a sorry story. The author says Iowa, New Jersey, and Arizona have admirable ways to redistrict, but it seems clear to me Iowa's way is the best because it draws lines ignoring political considerations--the only state that does. The blatant political line drawing in Texas is a disgrace, although California in the past also was blatantly partisan. As a result few seats are competitive. The author says the GOP will control the House till 2013--a prediction happily proved wrong on Nov 7. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The House of Representatives--the "people's House"--is supposed to be the body of government closest to ordinary citizens, reflecting their needs and desires. But it has drifted from its roots in recent years, as lawmakers have become deaf to voters and fixated on maintaining their power inside the Beltway. Just over a decade ago Republicans wrested control of the chamber from Democrats, who had ruled uninterrupted for four decades. They promised to make the House more open and responsive to voters, and these GOP revolutionaries instituted several reforms that did make the House less corrupt. But over time they have lost this heady spirit of reform, as they've punished members who buck the party line and relegated Democrats to the legislative sidelines. Even as Republicans were revamping the House in Washington, party operatives across the country were changing it by redrawing the political maps that decide who gets elected to Congress and who doesn't. Redistricting - the traditional decennial rite in which the country divvies up citizens into voting blocs and maps out new congressional seats in all 50 states - is an inside game that gets little attention outside academia and a tight circle of political pundits. But it is key in understanding why men and women on the far right and far left now control the levers of power in Washington. House members now hail from overwhelmingly Democratic or Republican districts, which means that they spend most of their time catering to their party's base. And once they win their first race they are virtually assured of reelection for as long as they wish, giving them little incentive to focus on what their constituents want, or need. We are now facing a national divide, in which lawmakers are less accountable to the public and more beholden to party leaders. Fight Club Politics will show how our current political system has silenced the average American voter, and how ordinary citizens can reclaim the institution that claims to represent them. Published in coo Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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