{"id":32867,"date":"2024-04-10T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32867"},"modified":"2024-04-10T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T05:07:43","slug":"book-parliamentary-america-the-least-radical-means-of-radically-repairing-our-broken-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/book-parliamentary-america-the-least-radical-means-of-radically-repairing-our-broken-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cPARLIAMENTARY AMERICA: THE LEAST RADICAL MEANS OF RADICALLY REPAIRING OUR BROKEN DEMOCRACY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1696306484i\/181342699.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/69881.Maxwell_L_Stearns\">Maxwell L. Stearns<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Can a parliamentary democracy end America\u2019s constitutional crisis? Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can\u2019t solve the nation\u2019s most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our democracy upside down, with gerrymanders letting representatives choose voters rather than voters choosing them. In Parliamentary America , Maxwell L. Stearns argues that the solution to these complex problems is a parliamentary democracy. Stearns considers such leading alternatives as ranked choice voting, the national popular vote, and congressional term limits, showing why these can\u2019t solve our constitutional crisis. Instead, three amendments\u2015expanding the House of Representatives, having House party coalitions choose the president, and letting the House end a failing presidency based on no confidence\u2015will produce a robust multiparty democracy. These amendments hold an essential advantage over other by leaving every member of the House and Senate as incumbents in their districts or states, the amendments provide a pressure-release valve against reforms threatening that status. Stearns takes readers on a world tour\u2015England, France, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Brazil, and Venezuela\u2015showing what works in government, what doesn\u2019t, and how to make the best features our own. Genuine party competition and governing coalitions, commonplace across the globe, may seem like a fantasy in the United States. But we can make them a reality. This rare book offers an optimistic vision, explaining in accessible terms how to transform our troubled democracy into a thriving parliamentary America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy Maxwell L. Stearns Can a parliamentary democracy end America\u2019s constitutional crisis? Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can\u2019t solve the nation\u2019s most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/book-parliamentary-america-the-least-radical-means-of-radically-repairing-our-broken-democracy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32868,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32867\/revisions\/32868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}