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US Democracy for Busy People
Checks and Balances, the Electoral College, and Why the American System Is So Strange-and So Important
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36738980
EAN: 9798190468403
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 10.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 33.75
Beschreibung
Why is the world's most powerful democracy the only one that elects its president through 538 people nobody can name. You vote in every presidential election. You follow the news. And yet, somewhere between the Electoral College map and the latest Supreme Court fight, you have realized you can explain how the American system malfunctions better than you can explain how it works. Most civics books do not help: they are more of a how than a why. The primers hand you the org chart and stop. The doorstop histories are unfinishable. The bestsellers about democracy in crisis come with a side already picked. This book is the one between them. In short chapters built for a commute or a lunch break, it explains the machine end to end: Congress and its two rival chambers, the presidency, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, federalism, juries and grand juries, and the long war over who gets to vote. And it explains the why behind every mechanism: what the founders feared, what they took from Athens, Rome, and Montesquieu, and what the rest of the democratic world does differently. No side-taking and no partisan verdicts: where historians disagree, both names appear, and the judgment stays yours. Inside this book:. Why "democracy" and "republic" are not opposites, and what Madison actually meant by each. How the Electoral College really runs, November to inauguration, and why it exists at all. Checks and balances as the founders built them: ambition made to counteract ambition. The elections that nearly broke the system (1800, 1824, 1876) and the repairs that followed. How the American machine compares with parliamentary systems and proportional voting worldwide. >By the last page, you will be able to explain the strangest political machine ever built to someone who can't.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Noah K. Harrington
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 212