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DESCRIPTION:Can Politics Be Fixed?In recent books\, Thomas Mann and Ira Sha
 piro have decried the dysfunction in various aspects of our national polit
 ical system. And it seems as though things have only become worse since th
 ey wrote. With a particular focus on Congress\, the two authors--Mann a se
 nior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Shapiro a former senior Senat
 e staffer and member of the Clinton administration--consider the roots of 
 the problem\, and why we might be poised for a revival.
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SUMMARY:State of Democracy Lecture
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Can Politics Be Fixed?<br><br>In recent books\
 , Thomas Mann and Ira Shapiro have decried the dysfunction in various aspe
 cts of our national political system. And it seems as though things have o
 nly become worse since they wrote. With a particular focus on Congress\, t
 he two authors--Mann a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Shap
 iro a former senior Senate staffer and member of the Clinton administratio
 n--consider the roots of the problem\, and why we might be poised for a re
 vival.<br><br>
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