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Voices of Dissent

by: Grover, William F.; Peschek, Joseph G.

Voices of Dissent

by: Grover, William F.; Peschek, Joseph G.

ISBN 13:
9780321078391
ISBN 10:
032107839X
Edition: 4TH
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/01/2001
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Summary

This distinctive reader is the only collection of truly critical readings on American government available. Its approach takes readers beyond the mainstream debate between liberalism and conservatism and stimulates them to think deeply about the American political system.

Preface

Introduction: Why a Critical Reader?

(6)

Part I: Structure

(116)

Democracy and Political Economy

(36)

This Land is Your Land

(11)

Jim Hightower

The Market as Prison

(8)

Charles E. Lindblom

Why Does the Air Stink? Corporate Power and Public Policy

(11)

Dan Clawson

Alan Neustadtl

Mark Weller

Global Ecology and the Common Good

(5)

John Bellamy Foster

Ideology and Political Culture

(50)

What is the American Dream?

(14)

Jennifer L. Hochschild

Liberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship

(9)

Robert N. Bellah

Richard Madsen

William M. Sullivan

Ann Swidler

Steven M. Tipton

Power of Majority Opinion in America Over Thought

(4)

Alexis De Tocqueville

The Common Good

(11)

Noam Chomsky

It's the Media, Stupid

(11)

Robert W. McChesney

John Nichols

Constitutional and State Structures

(28)

American Exceptionalism: The Politics of Fragmentation

(7)

Joshua Cohen

Joel Rogers

The Dark Side of the Constitution

103

(12)

Kenneth M. Dolbeare

Linda Medcalf

How the Constitution is Paralyzing American Democracy

115

(5)

Daniel Lazare

Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident

120

(3)

Howard Zinn

Part II: Institutions and Processes

123

(148)

Congress

125

(36)

Congress and Big Business

126

(7)

John C. Berg

RIP for Democratic Politics

133

(8)

Benjamin Ginsberg

Martin Shefter

Let the Lobby Boys In

141

(7)

David Maraniss

Michael Weisskopf

Congress and Movement-Building: Bernie Sanders and the Congressional Progressive Caucus

148

(13)

William F. Grover

The Presidency

161

(38)

The Limits of Presidential Power

162

(5)

Michael A. Genovese

The Presidential Spectacle

167

(15)

Bruce Miroff

Star Wars II: Here We Go Again

182

(10)

Michelle Ciarrocca

William D. Hartung

Perilous Restoration: The Election of 2000 and the Presidency of George W. Bush

192

(7)

Joseph G. Peschek

Law and the Courts

199

(29)

Corporations, the Law, and Democracy

200

(12)

Carl Swidorski

Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy?

212

(8)

Cass R. Sunstein

Race, the Courts, and Justice

220

(4)

Patricia J. Williams

Women's Rights and the Cultural Defense Argument

224

(4)

Nina Schuyler

Parties and Elections

228

(43)

Why Americans Still Don't Vote

229

(10)

Frances Fox Piven

Richard A. Cloward

Finding the Lost Voters

239

(7)

Micah L. Sifry

America's Forgotten Majority

246

(12)

Joel Rogers

Ruy Teixeira

The Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite

258

(8)

Kiku Adatto

Making Every Vote Count: A Case for Proportional Representation

266

(5)

Douglas J. Amy

Part III: Politics and Vision

271

(77)

Political Challenges at Home and Abroad

273

(41)

The Shaky American Dream: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap

273

(12)

Holly Sklar

Betsy Leondar-Wright

Chuck Collins

Doing It For Ourselves: Can Feminism Survive Class Polarization?

285

(5)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Beyond Ramps: Charity and Economic Rights in Collision

290

(8)

Marta Russell

Workin' on the Chain Gang

298

(7)

Walter Mosley

Global Agenda: The WTO, Globalization, and the Threat to Democracy

305

(9)

William Greider

Personal Responsibility and Democratic Citizenship

314

(34)

Letter from Birmingham Jail

315

(7)

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Possibility of Hope

322

(7)

Howard Zinn

Why Unions Matter

329

(8)

Elaine Bernard

After the Deluge: Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Election of 2000

337

(4)

Lani Guinier

Closing the Democracy Gap

341

(7)

Ralph Nader

Resources for Further Study

348

(5)

APPENDIX

353

(23)

The Declaration of Independence

353

(3)

The Constitution of the United States

356

(15)

The Federalist No. 10

371

(5)

Credits

376

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