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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... by the wealthy who use their freedom to contribute to candidates, anticipating privileged access, if not influence, in return. Equality has been described as the defining premise of democracy, 6 G. M. POMPER AND M. D. WEINER.
... candidates' efforts in the past three elections to portray themselves as bipartisan cooperators suggest that campaign consultants do not think voters are increasingly polarized. The most systematic analysis of public opinion similarly ...
... candidates Bush and Gore must be understood in terms of both dimensions (Brady 2001; for earlier analyses, see Scammon and Wattenberg 1970; Gerring 1999). This too is not yet Dahlian pluralism, since we lack evidence of whether people ...
... voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every presidential election since 1976, with one marginal exception (Connelly 2000). Asian Americans split their votes even more; roughly 40 percent 16 JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD.
... candidate make “diversity” in his Cabinet a central campaign pledge. These are changes that would alarm Madison and the Dahl of “overlapping cleavages.” Identity politics rejects the melting pot in favor of celebrating difference. In ...
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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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