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Rahman, K. Sabeel

 
9781967190201: Remaking the State: A New Blueprint for American Democracy
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ISBN 10 : 1967190208 ISBN 13 : 9781967190201
Editeur : Columbia Global Reports, 2027

Synopsis

American democracy is in trouble―but not only for the reasons we think

Beyond elections, polarization, or money in politics lies a quieter, more dangerous failure: The state itself has stopped working. Policies are promised, passed, and praised―and then stall, unravel, or never arrive.

In Remaking the State, K. Sabeel Rahman argues this breakdown is no accident. The old administrative state was built as a technocratic, expert-driven black box―distant, unaccountable, and ultimately unable to deliver. The machinery of government lacked a democratic soul.

Rahman offers a different path: A moral vision of administration rooted not in expertise alone, but in purpose. He reimagines the state as a vehicle for democratic freedom, one that protects against harm, secures basic needs, and confronts the deeper structures of inequality.

Remaking the State argues that American democracy will survive only if government can once again deliver. Against both technocratic nostalgia and anti-government reaction, Rahman offers a bold new blueprint: Rebuild public institutions around democratic freedom, with stronger protections, broader public provision, deeper participation, and firmer checks on autocratic power. Urgent and clarifying, this is a bracing case for remaking the state before democracy is remade against us.

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À propos de l'auteur

K. Sabeel Rahman is a professor of law at Cornell Law School, and served in the Biden administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2021 to 2023, including as the head of the office from 2022 to 2023. He previously led the public policy think tank Demos and cofounded the Law and Political Economy Project. He is the author or coauthor of numerous works, including Democracy Against Domination (2016) and Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis (2019).

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Éditeur
Columbia Global Reports
Date d'édition
2027
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1967190208
ISBN 13 
9781967190201
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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