Dangerous Convictions
What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 October 2014
- ISBN 9780199392872
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 231x152x20 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
By virtually all measures, polarization in Congress has increased dramatically over the course of the past two decades. Former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen lived through this era, serving six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Drawing from his own experiences in the Congressional trenches, he tackles the root cause of why Democrats and Republicans arrived at a point where they barely speak to each other.
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The rhetoric of the 2012 presidential campaign exposed the deeply rooted sources of political polarization in American. One side celebrated individualism and divided the public into "makers and takers;" the other preached "better together" as the path forward. Both focused their efforts on the "base" not the middle.
In Dangerous Convictions, former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen argues that what's really wrong with Congress is the widening, hardening conflict in worldviews that leaves the two parties unable to understand how the other thinks about what people should do on their own and what we should do together. Members of Congress don't just disagree, they think the other side makes no sense. Why are conservatives preoccupied with cutting taxes, uninterested in expanding health care coverage and in denial about climate change? What will it take for Congress to recover a capacity for pragmatic compromise on these issues?
Allen writes that we should treat self-reliance (the quintessential American virtue) and community (our characteristic instinct to cooperate) as essential balancing components of American culture and politics, instead of setting them at war with each other. Combining his personal insights from 12 years In Congress with recent studies of how human beings form their political and religious views, Allen explains why we must escape the grip of our competing worldviews to enable Congress to work productively on our 21st century challenges.
With historically low ratings, Congress is regarded as 'dysfunctional' by Americans of all political persuasions. Why that is so, and what can be done to reduce excessive partisanship, is the subject of Tom Allen's well-informed and provocative book.
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Early Lessons in Congress
Chapter Two: The Federal Budget: Faith-Based Economics
Chapter Three: Iraq: Evidence Doesn't Matter
Chapter Four: Health Care: Principle before People
Chapter Five: Climate Change: Denial as Public Policy
Chapter Six: The Sources of Polarization
Chapter Seven: Finding a Path to Recovery
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