Just how stupid are we? : facing the truth about the American voter

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Just how stupid are we? : facing the truth about the American voter

Title remainder

facing the truth about the American voter

Statement of responsibility

Rick Shenkman

Creator

• Shenkman, Richard

Contributor

• ebrary, Inc

Subject

• Political Participation
• Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Political participation -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
• Political Culture
• United States -- Politics and Government | 2001-2009
• United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
• United States -- Civilization | 21st Century

Language

eng

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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

320.973

LC call number

JK1764

LC item number

.S534 2008eb

Summary expansion

Fifty percent of Americans can name four characters from “The Simpsons," but only two out of five can name all three branches of the federal government. No more than one in seven can find Iraq on a map. Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid. In Just How Stupid Are We? , best-selling author Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. American democracy is as direct as it's ever been--but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. At once a powerful indictment of voter apathy and political indifference, Just How Stupid Are We? also provides concrete proposals for reforming our institutions--the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties--to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves