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Tensions of American Federal Democracy: Fragmentation of the State book cover

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Tensions of American Federal Democracy Fragmentation of the State

By Jared Sonnicksen Copyright 2022
274 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives – including those of other modern federal democracies – to explore the jigsaw puzzle that is the state of American federal democracy. The USA has a complex political system prone to "divided government", which has become highly polarized in recent years. The reasons for... Read more

Prologue

1. Introduction: Exploring the Limited State

2. Towards an Analytical Framework

3. Constitutional Immanence in the United States

4. The State of American Federal Democracy

5. Democratic Divided Government

6. Multilevel Divided Government

7. Politics of the Constitution

8. Conclusion: The Decoupled Polity

Epilogue

Biography

Jared Sonnicksen is Chair of Political Systems at the Institute of Political Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

‘Strangely, American federalism has been largely absent from American political development (APD) scholarship. Jared Sonnicksen’s insightful, stimulating and ambitious book represents a significant contribution to fill this gap. Building on the concept of immanent fragmentation as an institutional reality and regulative idea, this innovative account of American federal democracy "in" and "through" time has a lot to offer, for students of American politics and comparative federalism alike.’

Jörg Broschek, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

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