TY - BOOK AU - Steven L. Taylor. TI - A Different democracy: American government in a 31-Country Perspective SN - 970300198089 U1 - 320.473TAY PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Yale University Press KW - Democracy N1 - Includes index N2 - American democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in Asia, Latin America, or Europe? What if the United States had a prime minister instead of (or in addition to) a president, or if it had three or more parties in Congress instead of two? Would there be more partisan animosity and legislative gridlock or less? These are the kinds of questions that thinking about U.S. government in comparative perspective helps us to analyze ER -