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Jentleson, Adam.
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United States. Congress. Senate.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
Proportional representation -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Jentleson, Adam.
United States. Congress. Senate.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
Proportional representation -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Kill switch : the rise of the modern
Senate
and the crippling of American democracy / Adam Jentleson.
by
Jentleson, Adam.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Call #:
328.73071 J54k
Subjects
United
States
.
Congress
.
Senate
.
Representative government and representation --
United
States
.
Proportional representation --
United
States
.
Democracy --
United
States
.
Filibusters (Political science) --
United
States
.
United
States
-- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United
States
-- Politics and government -- 1989-
ISBN:
9781631497773 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-300) and index.
Summary:
"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using 'the greatest deliberative body in the world' to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US
Senate
, yet the
Senate
allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the
Senate
and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for readers of How Democracies Die and even Master of the
Senate
, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of
Senate
practices--starting with ending the filibuster--we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America"--Publisher.
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