TY - BOOK AU - Lessig,Lawrence TI - They don't represent us: reclaiming our democracy SN - 9780062945716 AV - JK 1726 L639t 2019 U1 - 320.973 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, NY PB - Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow, KW - Democracy KW - United States KW - Representative government and representation KW - Political participation KW - Political parties KW - Polarization (Social sciences) KW - Democracia KW - Estados Unidos KW - Gobierno representativo KW - Participación política KW - Partidos políticos KW - Polarización (Ciencias sociales) KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century KW - Política y gobierno KW - Siglo XXI N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Part I; Flaws --; The unrepresentative "them" --; The unrepresentative us --; Part II; Fixes --; Fixing them --; Fixing us --; What "fixed" would get us --; Conclusion --; Afterword N2 - "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible"--; "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible.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 ER -