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Here, Jensen and Rowse part ways. “Rowse’s prescription for improving the health of our political system primarily through media reform misses the point,” Jensen argues. “Media reform is crucial, but it has to be part of a larger social movement that addresses illegitimate structures of authority and unjust concentrations of power throughout the society, in private and public arenas.” Jensen worries that Rowse puts too much faith in journalism as both a concept and an institution...
...discuss the solutions, he must repeat the problems anyway, for by now we have forgotten what the problem was. As a consequence of this structure, he waits until late in the book to discuss what is arguably the central problem of American government: campaign finance. He addresses campaign finance reform in the section on remedies, rather than the section on problems. When he does come to it, he dismisses (with good cause) many proposed reforms, and comes to the pessimistic conclusion that money and politics are inextricably linked—any reform that is meaningful has no chance of being...
...most insightful parts of The Trouble with Government are those discussing inefficiencies in government. Though Bok sadly falls prey to the modern idolatry of the market, he does identify several points where useful reform is possible. He makes a fairly conclusive case that both legislation and executive regulations are designed less coherently and less skillfully in the United States than in other industrialized democracies. He outlines the reasons for this—our federalist system and bicameral legislature, and the fragmented structure of Congressional committees. He proposes several workable solutions within our framework, most of which boil down to strengthening...
...Hearing Raph Nader?s name used to drive corporate lobbyists crazy. Now it is the consumer advocate?s old friends who howl at its mention. Their rage is fired by a paradox: the champion of reform arguably gave birth to Dubya?s age of conservative reaction. That makes Nader a politician with a national following but few allies. He continues to draw sizeable crowds at colleges and conferences across the nation, delivering the populist spiel he ran on as the Green Party candidate. But Democratic Congressmen who worked with him to craft a generation of consumer and environmental...
Turkey is knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human rights warrior...