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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... Race, and Class 55 JANE JUNN Chapter 5 The Future of Liberty in American Democratic Politics? Or the Future of Democracy for the Politics of Liberty? 73 NANCY J. HIRSCHMANN Chapter 6 The Rhetoric of Democratic Liberty 91 GORDON SCHOCHET ...
... Race, and Competing Visions of Justice (with Milton Heumann). WILLIAM CROTTY is the Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Public Life and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at Northeastern University. He has published a number of ...
... Race, and Competing Visions of Justice. NANCY J. HIRSCHMANN is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom ...
... racial inequality? mcwilliams: In a sense it is better, because racial inequality strikes me as an injustice of such a fundamental level. Racial inequality is against common sense. The argument that the rich are superior to the poor is ...
... racial identity. The emerging resolution, she suggests, may be intergroup coalitions, in which ethnic identities are maintained but also become the foundation of a new Madisonian system of pragmatic and shifting alliances. Wilson Carey ...
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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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