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What is Saving American Elections: A Diagnosis And Prescription For A Healthier Democracy (politics, Institutions, And Public Policy In America) about?

•This book is in the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America book series (Series editors: Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly) In this book, author Anthony Gierzynski argues that the American elections are in a sorry state, with the problems known to even the most casual observers. Large portions of the public are disengaged and uniformed. Voter turnout is low; in fact, it is even lower than voter turnout in most other democratic nations. The electorate is cynical about elections, politics, and government and appears poorly informed on many important issues and the basics of the American political system. Elections are lacking in the competition necessary to make electoral choices meaningful: lopsided redistricting and unequal distribution of campaign money mean that many races provide voters with no viable choice. When the elections are competitive, the way voters make their choices often renders election outcomes meaningless in terms of actually directing government policy. The state of elections in America has attracted a lot of attention from academics, reformers, and other observers, and there has been no shortage of reform proposals aiming to improve the state of electio

Author

Gierzynski, Anthony, 1961-

Publisher

Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781624996795

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences