The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative to explain everything from political traditions to cyberspace. This unique collection of original essays helps further that project by surveying stories of and about all kinds of American politics-from welfare, race, and immigration; to workfare, jobs, and education; to gay rights, national security, and the American Dream in an age of economic globalization.
The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to devel...
"United We Fall" argues that today's harmful levels of polarization in American politics can be ratcheted down only by giving up the twin notions that the center is the sweet spot for political efficiency and that all differences deserve equal weight in the democratic balance. The American people need instead to embrace a political credo of civic engagement, confrontation with open ears, and spirited debate. The commonplace United We Stand must be supplanted by the insight that democracy is strongest where it acknowledges and formalizes real division. But surely bipartisan rancor in...
"United We Fall" argues that today's harmful levels of polarization in American politics can be ratcheted down only by giving up the twin notions t...
Americans have been divided along political lines for so long that they have nearly forgotten how to talk to one another, much less how to listen. This is not likely to improve as long as differences between them continue to be cast in overly simplistic terms, such as -ignorance- vs. -enlightened awareness- or -morality- vs. -reprobate immorality.- Such dichotomies ignore the fact that many citizens who disagree politically nonetheless share a desire to work for the larger good of society.
Phil Neisser, a self-described -left-wing atheist, - first met Jacob Hess, a social...
Americans have been divided along political lines for so long that they have nearly forgotten how to talk to one another, much less how to listen. Thi...
