The Majoritarian Solution: Re-establishing America's Purpose

The Majoritarian Solution finds the common root of America's recent lack of participatory spirit, productivity, and economic competitiveness in a now-little-known but well-documented procedural gap, having to do with the selection of top leadership in the 1787 Constitution of the United States. This book describes the problem, places it in historic and comparative perspective, and proposes a way in which the nation's flagging democratic resolve can be re-kindled. The alleged enormous benefit of a more widely representative and accountable U.S. foreign policy is, in particular, highlighted. Contents: IntroductionóThe Argument Raised; AmericaóThe Balanced System, On Paper; AmericaóThe New Corporatist State; Societies and Natural History; The Soviet ExperimentóA Double Bind; The International Relations Level; Regaining Our Balance.^R