They Don't Represent Us

They Don't Represent Us
Author :
Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062945730
ISBN-13 : 0062945734
Rating : 4/5 (734 Downloads)

Book Synopsis They Don't Represent Us by : Lawrence Lessig

Download or read book They Don't Represent Us written by Lawrence Lessig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A NEW FOREWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION “This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and Unrigged In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible. America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw—unrepresentativeness—has detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drive our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions. In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them”—Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.” “We the people” are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will. What we need, Lessig contends, is a series of reforms, from governmental institutions to the public itself, including: A move immediately to public campaign funding, leading to more representative candidates A reformed Electoral College, that gives the President a reason to represent America as a whole A federal standard to end partisan gerrymandering in the states A radically reformed Senate A federal penalty on states that don’t secure to their people an equal freedom to vote Institutions that empower the people to speak in an informed and deliberative way A soul-searching and incisive examination of our failing political culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, offering a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us.


They Don't Represent Us Related Books

They Don't Represent Us
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Lawrence Lessig
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: HarperCollins

GET EBOOK

WITH A NEW FOREWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION “This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful
America, Compromised
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Lawrence Lessig
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

An analysis of “the Trump era, but not about Trump. . . . but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption” (New York Times Book
The Great Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Ganesh Sitaraman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-10 - Publisher: Basic Books

GET EBOOK

A leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times). Since
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Alexander Keyssar
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representa
Republic, Lost
Language: en
Pages: 415
Authors: Lawrence Lessig
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: Twelve

GET EBOOK

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the criti