{"product_id":"remaking-the-state-k-sabeel-rahman-9781967190201","title":"Remaking the State: A New Blueprint for American Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmerican democracy is in trouble--but not only for the reasons we think.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond elections, polarization, or money in politics lies a quieter, more dangerous failure: the state itself has stopped working. Policies are promised, passed, and praised--and then stall, unravel, or never arrive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRemaking the State\u003c\/i\u003e, K. Sabeel Rahman argues this breakdown is no accident. The old administrative state was built as a technocratic, expert-driven black box--distant, unaccountable, and ultimately unable to deliver. The machinery of government lacked a democratic soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRahman offers a different path: a moral vision of administration rooted not in expertise alone, but in purpose. He reimagines the state as a vehicle for democratic freedom, one that protects against harm, secures basic needs, and confronts the deeper structures of inequality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemaking the State\u003c\/i\u003e argues that American democracy will survive only if government can once again deliver. Against both technocratic nostalgia and anti-government reaction, Rahman offers a bold new blueprint: rebuild public institutions around democratic freedom, with stronger protections, broader public provision, deeper participation, and firmer checks on autocratic power. Urgent and clarifying, this is a bracing case for remaking the state before democracy is remade against us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. Sabeel Rahman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1967190208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781967190201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia Global Reports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"K. Sabeel Rahman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621632520447,"sku":"9781967190201","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remaking-the-state-k-sabeel-rahman-9781967190201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}