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Title: Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater, Third Edition by Benjamin Ginsberg, Martin Shefter ISBN: 0-393-97763-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.10 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The Gilded Age, Part Two
Comment: Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter have written a thorough recounting of the last thirty years in American political life. The authors' views are interesting as well as provocative. Most notably, their thesis that the United States has entered a postelectoral era where the importance of elections is eclipsed by instruments of political combat. And the practitioners of this combat while perfecting these weapons have failed to mobilize voters, which has had a deleterious effect on party organizations, and has lead to deadlock in government.
There are points that the authors could pursue that would strengthen this work. It would be worthwhile to note that low voter turnout, particularly in the case of primary elections, works to create nominees of the more extreme wings of the parties. If more voters than just the party faithful were to show up perhaps deadlock and institutional combat would be precluded. But the authors seem to blame the failure of voter mobilization on the leaders rather than on the disinterested electorate.
Another notion that could be suggested is that the United States has entered another "Gilded Age" where there are no over-arching issues around which consensus can be reached. Isn't it possible that this combat may be a result of the end of the Cold War? Didn't a new power structure need to be created in that vacuum?
Additionally, the authors write of the media and its rise to power but fail to fully explore the increased capacity, or presence, of the current wall-to-wall coverage.
Rating: 4
Summary: the political shift
Comment: This was an excellent book. The authors took an extensive look at the shift in the approach to politics today and examined how the shift stems out of history; including references to political parties and the media. The book explains, in an insightful way, how the current focus on prosecution of political figures has contributed to electoral decay. This book includes fascinating insight into the current political situation and how we have arrived at this point. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in why our politics seems to have decayed to the negative state it is at now.
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Title: Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization by Harold Seidman ISBN: 0195090721 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Presidency and the Political System by Michael Nelson, Anne M. Khademian ISBN: 1568026730 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Emerging Democratic Majority by John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira ISBN: 0743226917 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Right Man : The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum ISBN: 0375509038 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public by Matthew A. Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg ISBN: 0801871506 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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