Sanford Levinson (University of Texas Law School) and Jack M. Balkin (Yale Law School), Democracy and Dysfunction (The University of Chicago Press 2019).
“Democracy and Dysfunction is a conversation between two of the leading constitutional law scholars of our time, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, who seek to uncover the underlying causes of our current difficulties and the best way to reform American democracy. In a series of letters exchanged over a period of two years, Levinson and Balkin travel through the convulsions of the 2016 election and Trump's first year in office. They disagree about the scope of the crisis and the remedy required. Levinson believes that our Constitution is fundamentally defective and argues for a new constitutional convention. Balkin, who believes we are suffering from constitutional rot, argues that there are less radical solutions.”
–Publisher’s description
