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U.S.A. 2012

Name: U.S.A. 2012
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SKU: 9781566430357
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After the Middle-Class Revolution

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By Kenneth M. Dolbeare, Janette Kay Hubbell
Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC. U.S.
Release Date: March 31, 1996
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 190

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Based on the premiss that the US, in the past two decades, has been in the midst of an economic-social-cultural transformation in which the middle class has paid a heavy price, this volume envisions a drastic "Jeffersonian" revolution. It proposes a fundamental shift toward economic nationalism and the basic political reconstruction that will enable it. The book postulates that major reform will be necessary. In the light of an unresponsive political system, the only way to enact an economic nationalist programme is to make major issues subject to popular decision, firmly restrict campaign funding, open elections to multiple political parties and proportional voting, and make direct and issue-based democracy possible for the first time. The authors offer a set of solutions that they feel will enable middle Americans to take back their governments and make them work for the public interest again.

Kenneth M. Dolbeare is a retired professor of political science who has taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Washington, Massachusetts, and Colorado-Denver. He also taught for fifteen years at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. In addition to his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, he received his LLB from Brooklyn Law School and is a member of the New York Bar. He is the author of several research monographs and other books, the most recent of which is USA 2012: After the Middle Class Revolution (1996).

Thomas Jefferson revisited - the fourth of July 2000. Part 1 Problems and prospects: the United States at the end of the 20th century; forward to the 1890s - the basic scenarios. Part 2 The middle-class revolution: an economy for Americans - all Americans; "Each generation has the right to choose for itself"; the new American democracy. Epilogue. Appendix: new technology, new politics?. Bibliographic essay.

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