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The Democratic Debate An Introduction to American Politics
ISBN: 9780618436798 | 0618436790
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/9/2006
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"The Democratic Debate" examines the struggle between the elite and popular models of democracy which, the authors argue, have alternated as the dominant vision in America since its founding. The text uses the standard of popular democracy to examine the United States from anti-federalism to contemporary social movements. Special attention is given to people, famous and otherwise, whose actions demonstrate how individuals can make a difference in democracy. Thorough coverage of recent events includes a discussion of Enron and issues of corporat... MORE
| Foundations | |
| Introduction: The Democratic Debate What Is Democracy? | |
| Origins of the Democratic Debate | |
| The Founding Evolution of Popular Democracy | |
| The Logic of Inclusion Evolution of Elite Democracy | |
| The Logic of Expertise | |
| Summarizing the Democratic Debate | |
| Interpreting Political Facts | |
| The Problem of Participation Conclusion | ... MORE |
| Joining the Democratic Debate | |
| The Revolution and the Constitution | |
| Origins of the Democratic Debate | |
| From Colonials to Revolutionaries | |
| From Revolution to Constitution | |
| The Constitutional Convention Ratification | |
| Struggle and the Democratic Debate | |
| The Bill of Rights | |
| Conclusion | |
| Beginning the Democratic Debate | |
| The American Political Economy | |
| Two Tales of the Political Economy | |
| Unaccountable Corporate Power | |
| The Problem of Rising Inequality | |
| Political Economy and Civil Society | |
| Conclusion | |
| We Do Not Need to Choose Between Democracy and Prosperity | |
| Public Opinion and Political Culture | |
| Public Opinion and the Democratic Debate | |
| American Political Culture | |
| Interpreting Divides Within the Political | |
| Culture Ideologies and Public | |
| Opinion Where Does Public | |
| Opinion Originate? | |
| How Public Opinion Is Organized | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Sensible Public | |
| Participation | |
| Where Have All the Voters Gone? | |
| The Mysterious Facts | |
| About Nonvoting Elite Democratic | |
| Theories of Nonvoting Popular | |
| Democracy and Nonvoting Mobilizing Nonvoters | |
| Would It Make a Difference? | |
| Conclusion | |
| Who's Afraid of Nonvoters? | |
| The Media | |
| Who Sets the Political Agenda? | |
| The Democratic Debate and the Mass Media | |
| Media Power and U.S. History Corporate | |
| Ownership and Control Government | |
| Influence on the Mass Media | |
| Making (and Creating) the News | |
| Conclusion | |
| Democratizing the Media | |
| Are the Parties Over? | |
| Why Political Parties Are Important | |
| Why American Parties Are Unique Critical Elections | |
| The Politics of Dealignment 1968? | |
| Generals Without Armies | |
| Current Party Organization | |
| Party Primaries and the National Conventions | |
| The Parties in the Electorate | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Future of Parties | |
| Campaigns | |
| Organized Money versus Organized People | |
| Campaign-Centered Politics | |
| The Permanent Campaign Game | |
| The Rise of High-Tech Politics Campaigning and Popular Democracy | |
| Conclusion | |
| Who Wins the Campaign Game? | |
| Interest Group Politics | |
| Elite Bias Interest | |
| Group Politics and the Democratic Debate | |
| The Growth of Interest Group Politics | |
| Traditional Lobbying | |
| The Insider Strategy | |
| The Class Bias of the Interest Group System | |
| The Rise of Public Interest Groups | |
| The New Lobbying | |
| Elite Countermobilization | |
| The New Interest Group Politics | |
| Democracy for Hire | |
| The Case of National Health Insurance | |
| Conclusion | |
| How Democratic Is the Interest Group System? | |
| Mass Movement Politics | |
| The Great Equalizer Protest Politics | |
| Goals and Tactics | |
| Mass Movements in American | |
| History Mass Movements | |
| The Necessary Ingredients Protest Tactics | |
| Walking a Fine Line | |
| The Elite Response to Mass Movements | |
| The Democratic Debate over Mass Movements | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Place of Protest Politics in a Democracy | |
| Institutions | |
| Congress | |
| A Vehicle for Popular Democracy? | |
| Congress Before the Revolution | |
| Congress During the Revolution | |
| Congress After the Revolution | |
| Congress and the Executive | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Post-Revolution Congress and the Democratic Debate | |
| Presidential | |
| Leadership and Elite Democracy | |
| The Personalized Presidency | |
| The Presidency as an Institution | |
| The Presidency and the Congress | |
| The Presidency and Economic Power | |
| The Presidency and National Security | |
| The President and the Public | |
| The President and the Media | |
| The Presidency and Democratic Movements Popular or Elite Democrat? | |
| The Case of Bill Clinton | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Elite Democratic Presidency | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| Myth and Reality The Democratic Debate over Bureaucracy | |
| A Short History | |
| The Modern Administrative State in America Bureaucrats as Policy Makers | |
| The Political Environment of Bureaucracy | |
| Bureaucracy and the Political Economy | |
| The Democratic Debate over Reforming the Bureaucracy | |
| Conclusion | |
| Beyond Monster Bureaucracy | |
| The Judiciary and the Democratic Debate | |
| Judicial Power and the Democratic Debate | |
| The Supreme Court in History Judicial Selection | |
| The Federal Court System The Supreme Court | |
| Process The Supreme Court | |
| Politics The Supreme Court and the Political System | |
| Conclusion | |
| Law, Politics, and the Democratic Debate | |
| State and Local Politics | |
| The Dilemma of Federalism | |
| Federalism and the Constitution | |
| The Failure of Dual Federalism | |
| Intergovernmental Relations | |
| States and Corporations | |
| Survival of the Unfit? | |
| Reformers and the Attack on Party Government | |
| States and Cities as Laboratories of Democracy | |
| Conclusion | |
| Is There a Way Out of the Dilemma? | |
| Policy | |
| Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | |
| Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | |
| Foes and Friends Civil Liberties and Civil Rights | |
| Historical Bases | |
| The First Amendment | |
| The Rights of Persons Accused of Crimes | |
| The Right of Privacy | |
| Birth Control and Abortion Civil Rights | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Struggle over Liberties and Rights | |
| Economic and Social Policy | |
| The Democratic Connections Policy Debates | |
| The Democratic | |
| Dimension The Rise and Fall of the Keynesian | |
| Consensus Reaganomics | |
| The Supply-Side Experiment | |
| How the Country Moved from Deficits to Surpluses | |
| The Politics of Budget Surpluses | |
| The Democratic Debate over the Money Supply | |
| The Democratic Debate on Welfare | |
| Conclusion | |
| Democratic Connections | |
| Foreign Policy in the National Security | |
| State Beginnings of the Democratic | |
| Debate over Foreign Policy Isolation and Expansion | |
| The Democratic Debate over the Cold War | |
| Foreign and Defense Policy | |
| Institutions | |
| Foreign Policy and Economic Power | |
| Foreign Policy and Public Opinion | |
| Post-Cold War Foreign | |
| Policy and the Democratic Debate | |
| Conclusion | |
| A More Democratic Foreign Policy? | |
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