Can America Govern Itself? (SSRC Anxieties of Democracy) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Frances E. Lee is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (2016), Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the US Senate (2009) and coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her books have received national recognition, including the American Political Science Association's Richard F. Fenno Award and the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic.

Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey. He has co-authored three books: Political Game Theory (Cambridge, 2007), Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006) and Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy (2013). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.