Lessig, Lawrence,   1961-  <br/><br/>
They don't represent us :  reclaiming our democracy / 
 They do not represent us 
Lawrence Lessig. 
 - xv, 334 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Flaws --  The unrepresentative "them" --  The unrepresentative us --  Fixes --  Fixing them --  Fixing us --  What "fixed" would get us --  Introduction --  Part I.  Part II.  Conclusion --  Afterword. 
<br/><br/> "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible"--  "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible. America's democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw--unrepresentativeness--has detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drive our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions. In They Don't Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation's citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with "them"--Washington's politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also "us." "We the people" are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will. A soul-searching and incisive examination of our failing political culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, offering a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us."--Publisher's description 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062945716 0062945718 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021279192 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--United States.<br/>Representative government and representation--United States.<br/>Political participation--United States.<br/>Political parties--United States.<br/>Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.<br/>Democracia--Estados Unidos <br/>Gobierno representativo--Estados Unidos <br/>Participación política --Estados Unidos <br/>Partidos políticos --Estados Unidos<br/>Polarización (Ciencias sociales)--Estados Unidos 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--21st century.<br/>Estados Unidos --Política y gobierno--Siglo XXI
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK 1726  / L639t 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.973