The Limits of 'Sensible Centrism'

摘要

In It's Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein provide a sobering description of how politics in Washington has coarsened over the span of a generation. Today, the authors warn, "Americas capacity to govern" is under threat ((ⅹⅶ)). They have some practical suggestions on how to make Washington work better. But the remedies may be unequal to the underlying problem: a profound shift in the structure of American politics and attitudes about the role of the federal government in American life.