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“It’s like skating over an enormous globe of thin ice. You have to keep moving fast all the time.”
Sayfa 194
In America, candidates can use parties when they are helpful in campaigns and abandon parties when they are an electoral hindrance, the opposite of the candidate-party relationship in most nations.
Sayfa 733
Tony Blair was elected Labour leader because he did not talk or look like an ordinary Labour Party member.
Sayfa 178
Among the world’s other democratic governments, only Israel spends as high a proportion of its budget on defence as the United States.
Sayfa 740
Bribery is quite rare in everyday American politics, since most interest groups and public officials have decided that giving or taking bribes is either too immoral, too risky, or both.
Sayfa 726
Winston Churchill
“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Sayfa 196
Other international comparisons show that U.S. per capita expenditures on healthcare are by far the highest in the world, followed at some distance by Switzerland and Germany. And in proportion of the GDP spent on education, the United States (with 7.3 percent) ranks second behind South Korea (8.2 percent) and ahead of Denmark (7.1 percent), Iceland (6.7 percent), and Sweden (6.5 percent).
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The proportion of the nations GDP spend on public welfare programs is lower than that in most industrialized nations.
Sayfa 741
Citizens of France are more likely than citizens of United States, Great Britain, or Germany to participate in demonstrations and political strikes, whereas Americans are more likely to persuade other people how to vote, attend a campaign, meeting and/or rally, work with citizen groups, sign a petition, and/or join in a boycott.
Sayfa 721
The Americans who do not always trust their government remain deeply proud of their nation and willing to sacrifice for it. Comparing Americans with Western Europeans on these dimensions is instructive. Studies have shown that more Americans say they are very proud of their country (80 percent) and are willing to fight for it (71 percent) than the citizens of Great Britain, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany in relation to their countries.
Sayfa 717
Given the crucial role of candidate selection in democratic elections, it is important to recognize that the United States is the only nation in the world that makes most of its nominations by direct primaries. In nearly all the parliamentary democracies, the parties’ candidates for parliament are chosen by the parties’ leaders or by small groups of card-carrying, dues-paying party members. A few countries, such as Germany and Finland, require the parties to choose their candidates by secret votes of local party members in procedures that resemble, but strictly speaking are not, direct primaries. Consequently, in every nation except the United States, the candidates are selected by only a few hundred, or at most a few thousand, party insiders.
Sayfa 722
The vagueness of the constitution makes it flexible, a point that political leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have exploited to increase their own power. In the words of a constitutional lawyer, J. A. G. Griffith, “The Constitution is what happens.”
Sayfa 184
“Can it then be in the interests of the state to go against the policy of the government of the day?”
Sayfa 194
Scarcity Doctrine
The court has found that there is no limit, other than economic, on the number of newspapers, books, magazines, or pamphlets that can be printed and circulated. But there is a physical limit on the number of television or radio stations that can operate in a given portion of the broadcast spectrum. Accordingly, said the Court, broadcasting is a public resource, much like the national parks or navigable rivers; this gives the government the right not only to allocate frequencies but also to set standards to ensure that their use will promote “the public convenience, interest, or necessity.”
Sayfa 718
American legal scholar Robert Kagan argues that litigation in the United States accomplishes (at a much higher cost) the same things that European nations accomplish through regulation. America has pursued this different path most likely because of the notion, espoused by populists like President Andrew Jackson, that the common man has enough wisdom to supervise everything, even his government.
Sayfa 717
Some economists believe that American economic dominance has ended. The United States, which for many years was the world’s greatest creditor nation, has become the world’s greatest debtor nation, in part because Americans continue to buy billions of dollars more of foreign goods than foreigners buy of American goods, and in part because of the long-standing enormous deficits in the federal government’s budget.
Sayfa 710