What is included with this book?
Introduction: The Change That Can Transform Our Political Life | p. 1 |
Politics at Its Best | |
How Do Outsiders Solve Problems That Politicians Won't? | p. 7 |
How to Resolve Any Issue-as Well as Humanly Possible | p. 15 |
Could Politicians Negotiate the Best Solutions? | p. 27 |
Why Our Lawmakers Betray Us | |
Each Lawmaker's Predicament: Whom Do I Represent? | p. 33 |
How Did American Politics Get So Dysfunctional? | p. 47 |
Each District as Diverse as the Whole United States | p. 53 |
Why Do Most Voters Feel So Powerless? | p. 61 |
While Most of Us Sleep, Congress Does Its Worst | p. 69 |
Does the Current System Threaten Our Survival? | p. 77 |
Big Changes Can Happen | p. 83 |
How to Get Politicians We Can Believe In | |
Make Each Representative Accountable ... for Real | p. 91 |
How Ideologically Diverse Do We Want Our Politicians to Be? | p. 105 |
Cementing the Bond Between Citizens and Lawmakers | p. 111 |
Answering Skeptics | p. 121 |
How America Could Reach Consensus | p. 133 |
Practical First Steps | p. 141 |
A Decade From Now: Our Rejuvenated Democracy | p. 149 |
Epilogue: Back to Here and Now-What You Can Do | p. 155 |
Appendixes | p. 157 |
Sources | p. 195 |
Acknowledgments | p. 201 |
Index | p. 203 |
About the Authors | p. 209 |
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