The Future of American Democratic Politics: Principles and PracticesNancy J. Hirschmann, Wilson McWilliams, Gordon Schochet, Jane Junn, Nelson Polsby, Jennifer Hochschild, John Hansen, Daniel Tichenor, Milton Heumann, Elizabeth Garrett, William Crotty, Alan Rosenthal, Gerald Pomper Rutgers University Press, 2003. gada 21. jūl. - 296 lappuses Even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, political scientists were assessing changes and continuities in the principles and practices of American democracy. Recent events, including the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act and the current debates about civil liberties versus homeland security, intensify the need to examine the long-term viability of democracy. In this book, fifteen major scholars assess the current state of American democracy, offering a spirited dialogue on the future of democratic politics. Contributors focus on three principles fundamental to democracy—equality, liberty, and participation. They examine these principles within the context of the basic institutions of American democracy: Congress and the state legislatures, the president, political parties, interest groups, and the Supreme Court. They raise questions regarding the checks and balances among formal governmental institutions (with the contributors sharing concern over the fading power of the legislature and the increased power of the executive and judiciary) as well as the role of political parties and interest groups. Topics discussed include: the incomplete mobilization of the electorate, the debates over campaign finance reform and term limits, the Supreme Court’s activist role in the Florida recount, the dangers of teledemocracy and state initiatives, the separation of political participation from residential location, “identity politics,” the clash of "negative" and "positive" liberty, and the prospects for personal freedom in an era of terrorist threats. This timely collection covers the issues relevant to the future of American democracy today not only for lawmakers, students, and historians, but for any concerned citizen. |
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... Justice? Police Discretion, Symbolic Assailants and Stereotyping (with Milton Heumann) and Hearing the Cries of Prisoners. He is also the coauthor of a forthcoming book Good Cop, Bad Cop: Profiling, Race, and Competing Visions of Justice ...
... justice concerns. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books and articles, including Plea Bargaining and Speedy Disposition (with Thomas Church), and has just completed (with Lance Cassak) a forthcoming book on police profiling ...
... justice scale. To the degree that nonparticipants are disproportionately losers in a whole bunch of other dimensions in society, to the degree that political mobilization by parties or something else would get them involved, would ...
... justice requires. I think that is a principle that is at work in our society, but it is a principle that we are more willing to ignore than to enact. And among the few things that will enable us as a society, a society with a governing ...
... justice, and spiritual perfection. . . . Universalism itself is too dangerous an ideal.” Thus “our mission . . . is not to purge the old universalism of its corruptions but to renounce it as fatally flawed and to perfect instead the ...
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The Practices of American Democratic Institutions | 111 |
Perspectives on the Future of American Democratic Politics | 217 |
Notes | 229 |
Works Cited | 245 |
Index | 271 |
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