Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States Zurn Christopher F.
Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States Zurn Christopher F. Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a…
Specifikacia Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States Zurn Christopher F.
Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States Zurn Christopher F.
Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations.Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. It is argued that "Splitsville" represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve.
Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political