The case for gridlock
Subtitle: democracy, organized power, and the legal foundations of American government
By: Marcus E. Ethridge.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780739142370
Subjects: Pressure groups -- United States; Lobbying -- United States; Progressivism (United States politics); Constitutional history -- United States; Administrative agencies -- United States
Description: This book explains how Progressive ideas about government have led to severe representational problems in the American political system. It explores the faulty logic and naïve thinking of the Progressive perspective, revealing the uncertainties and anomalies in legal doctrine that have emerged as a result of their effort to graft "efficient" designs onto the gridlock-prone system that James Madison and the other Framers left us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Progressivism, organized interests, and the politics of gridlock; title: The constitutional principle and institutional design; title: Incomplete conquest : progressivism and the legal foundations of the administrative state through the 1960s; title: The collapse of progressive institutional design; title: Constitutionalism resurgent : the end of liberalism?.