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Many observers of American politics believe that representative government, particularly in the Congress, is failing. This book examines the case for failure: what are the outward signs, and how do they reflect breaches of underlying norms of fair and effective representation? The book argues that good representation demands healthy competition between parties, but that in today's America, that competition has run off the rails.
Charles R. Beitz teaches political philosophy at Princeton University, where he has been director of the University Center for Human Values and the Program in Political Philosophy. He served previously as dean for academic affairs and professor of government at Bowdoin College and professor of political science at Swarthmore College. He was editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs for a decade. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Rockefeller Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Council on Education.
Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. He has served as president of the American Political Science Association and dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has written on public opinion and political participation, political methodology, Canadian and American elections, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and topics in public policy including higher education, social welfare, and voting systems.
