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Marc J. Dunkelman
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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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published
2025
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5 editions
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The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
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published
2014
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9 editions
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“the silent majority didn’t want every authority figure slapped—the White House purposely baited progressives into taking positions out of step with the president’s mainstream appeal.”
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
“But if progressives might once have had faith that government officials could be trusted to weigh the pros and cons, Jeffersonianism’s cultural aversion to power has denuded the system’s capacity to make tough calls. The movement had very purposefully granted various countervailing concerns with what amounted to vetoes. And while each veto may serve to protect a worthwhile interest, piled together they almost inevitably foment paralysis. Almost worse, the contemporary impulse to limit creativity has had the perverse effect of incentivizing projects less likely to take climate concern into account.”
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
“It was, and is, easy to argue that the downsides of any given decision could have been avoided if everyone affected had been given sufficient voice. But the reality was, and is, that progress involves ratifying trade-offs that distribute burdens across communities, fair and unfair. And so a progressive agenda centered in almost every context on providing ordinary citizens with new tools to thwart that centralized authority—opportunities to use their voice to lobby an official, to file a lawsuit, to register a complaint—too frequently fails to answer a crucial question: Who, after everyone has spoken, should make the final choice?”
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
― Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
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