Future of American Democracy: A Former Congressman's Unconventional Analysis Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Browder's Thesis of American Democracy	1
Sect. 1	Is America Dying?
Ch. 1	Is America Dying?: (An unconventional analysis of transforming American democracy)	5
Ch. 2	How Dare I Ask Such an Outrageous Question About America?: (The discomforting venture of a veteran politician, political scientist, and "American Dreamer")	27
Ch. 3	What Do I Mean by "America", "American Democracy", and "Dying"?: (A systems theory of transformational America)	45
Sect. 2	Why and How, Arguably, is America Dying?
Ch. 4	Proposition Number One: "The favorable systemic environment of American democracy has disappeared."	65
Ch. 5	Proposition Number Two: "We have entrapped American democracy within a philosophical civil war."	81
Ch. 6	Proposition Number Three: "American democracy no longer works the way it has in the past"	101
Ch. 7	Proposition Number Four: "America seems to be tiring of its historic Great Experiment."	129
Sect. 3	Is America Going to Die?
Ch. 8	How Serious is America's Democratic Distemper?: (Systemic realities and alternative scenarios)	149
Ch. 9	What Might America Look Life, If We Continue Our Current Course, in 2050?: (A speculative projection: "The American Federation")	167
	Conclusion: The Future of American Democracy?: (The Transformational Challenge of "New America")	187
	References	217
	Index	231