- Additional Authors
- Susskind, Lawrence.
- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 210 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Cure for our broken political process (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cure for our broken political process (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Politics at its best -- How do outsiders solve problems that politicians won't? -- How to resolve any issue-as well as humanly possible -- Could politicians negotiate the best solutions? -- Why our lawmakers betray us -- Each lawmaker's predicament : whom do I represent? -- How did American politics get so dysfunctional? -- Each district as diverse as the whole United States -- Why do most voters feel so powerless? -- While most of us sleep, Congress does its worst -- Does the current system threaten our survival? -- Big changes can happen -- How to get politicians we can believe in -- Make each representative accountable-- for real -- How ideologically diverse do we want our politicians to be? -- Cementing the bond between citizens and lawmakers -- Answering skeptics -- How America could reach consensus -- Practical first steps -- A decade from now : our rejuvenated democracy.
- LCCN
- 2008020945
- OCLC
- ssj0000568912
- Author
Erdman, Sol.
- Title
The cure for our broken political process [electronic resource] : how we can get our politicians to resolve the issues tearing our country apart / Sol Erdman & Lawrence Susskind.
- Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2008.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Susskind, Lawrence.