Sujet : Ungoverning in the absence of of We the People De : ltlee1 (at) *nospam* hotmail.com (ltlee1) Groupes :soc.culture.china Date : 01. Oct 2024, 13:38:49 Autres entêtes Organisation : novaBBS Message-ID :<2743c3c0781ece607c0f290991c991a8@novabbs.com> User-Agent : Rocksolid Light
"Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" "In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning--the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work--has become a malignant part of politics. Democracy depends on a government that can govern, and that requires what's called administration. The administrative state is made up of the vast array of departments and agencies that conduct the essential business of government, from national defense and disaster response to implementing and enforcing public policies of every kind. Ungoverning chronicles the reactionary movement that demands dismantling the administrative state. The demand is not for goals that can be met with policies or programs. When this demand is frustrated, as it must be, the result is an invitation to violence. .. The unfamiliar phenomenon of ungoverning threatens us all regardless of partisanship or ideological leaning. Ungoverning will not be limited to Donald Trump's moment on the political stage. To resist this threat requires that we first recognize what ungoverning is and what it portends. "