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02923aam a2200373 i 4500 001 E1B89F2C141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230120s2023 nyub b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022056699 020 $a 1032429798 020 $a 9781032429793 020 $a 1032429801 020 $a 9781032429809 035 $a (OCoLC)1354510059 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK311 $b .Z87 2023 082 00 $a 320.473 $2 23/eng/20230127 100 1 $a Zurn, Christopher F., $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Splitsville USA : $b a democratic argument for breaking up the United States / $c Christopher F. Zurn. 246 3 $a Splitsville United States of America 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 215 pages : $b maps ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States of America into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States' democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get to reform and what it would involve. It is argued that "Splitsville" represents the most plausible way for American citizens to continue living under a republican form of government. Despite recent talk of secession and civil war, this book offers the most extensive treatment yet of the issues we need to think through to enable a peacefully negotiated political divorce. Splitsville USA is a provocative conversation opener about the problems that have gotten us into our current political pickle and how to get out of it by seizing the reins of our own constitutional destiny. The book will appeal to readers of political science, American politics, history, political philosophy, and law, along with all general readers interested in the future of democracy in the United States"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prelude: Time for a US National Divorce -- Diagnosis: Democracy Imperiled -- Prescription: Splitsville USA -- Alternative Prescriptions? -- The Divorce Decree: Details of Negotiated Dissolution -- The Preamble's Broader Questions for Splitsville -- Authoring Our Own Destiny. 650 0 $a Secession $z United States. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Zurn, Christopher F., 1966- $t Splitsville USA $b First edition. $d New York : Routledge, 2023 $z 9781003365150 $w (DLC) 2022056700 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012618.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E1B89F2C141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search