America's failing experiment : how we the people have become the problem / Kirby Goidel.

Americaђة́s Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem makes the controversial claim that the American political system suffers from too much democracy. An accomplished public policy expert co-editor of the Journal Survey Practice, Kirby Goidel makes the provocative claim that our elected officials are overly responsive to public opinion which is often poorly informed, incoherent, and uncertain. If the diagnosis is too much democracy, the counterintuitive solution runs against our cultural normsђؤ́less citizen involvement, greater discretion for political elites, and greater collective responsibility.