Download or read book Politics In The Lifeboat written by John C. Harles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an ethnically heterogeneous but stable democracy, the United States is a puzzle for students of politics. Typically, the literature of democratic theory regards ethnic diversity as disruptive of a democratic polity. However, the United States has so far avoided the system-threatening consequences of heterogeneity experienced by other democratic