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In 2012 officials in the Town of Colden, a small, New York town near Buffalo, set in motion a policy-making process to decide whether or not to allow gas and oil drilling in their town using the controversial drilling technique known as "fracking." In 2015 this policy-making process collapsed without a decision one way or the other. What went wrong? The town's struggle to deal with a complex public issue broke down due to its failure to observ...

Millions of American citizens feel politically powerless in our self-rule democracy. Political myths tell us citizens are the ultimate political power in our system of government and we buy it-even after, based on personal experience, the myths are shown to be false.To cope with this illusion, Americans do a weird thing-they willingly suspended their disbelief in the political myths and pretend the myths are true. This tug-of-war between polit...