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Dangerous Convictions : What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress.
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 trench...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. In Dangerous Convictions, he shows that they now embrace fundamentally different worldviews that distill two central impulses in American history: individualism and the longing fo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199931996 0199931992 |