search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Debating Democracy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction How to Read This Book
1
13
The Founding: Debating the Constitution
14
17
Federalist No. 10
17
6
James Madison
Anti-federalist Paper, 18 October 1787
23
8
Brutus
The New Federalism: Does It Create Laboratories of Democracy or a Race to the Bottom?
31
15
Beyond the Beltway
34
5
William D. Eggers
John O'Leary
The Devil in Devolution
39
7
John D. Donahue
American Values: Individualism versus Community
46
18
Debating American Values
49
15
Frances Moore Lappe
Political Economy: How Democratic Is the Free Market Economy?
64
24
Capitalism and Freedom
67
10
Milton Friedman
The Market Erodes Democratic Government
77
11
Samuel Bowles
Richard Edwards
Civil Liberties: Does Democracy Require Limits on Freedom of Expression?
88
19
Debating Hate Speech and Pornography: Floyd Abrams versus Catharine A. MacKinnon
91
16
Anthony Lewis (Moderator)
Civil Rights: How Far Have We Progressed?
107
22
One Nation, Indivisible
110
9
Stephan Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom
A Country of Strangers
119
10
David K. Shipler
Public Opinion: Wise or Ignorant?
129
26
Public Opinion versus Popular Opinion
132
10
Robert Nisbet
Public Opinion Is a Wise Judge
142
13
Benjamin Page
Robert Shapiro
The Media: Vast Wasteland or New Frontier?
155
23
Packaging the People
158
9
Jarol B. Manheim
People Shape the Media
167
11
Douglas Rushkoff
Do Voting and Nonvoting Matter?
178
21
Voter Turnout in America: Ten Myths
181
6
Ruy Teixeira
Bringing Non-Voters in Would Transform American Politics
187
12
Raymond Seidelman
America's Political Parties: Channels for Voters or Conduits for Cash?
199
27
Alive and Well and Living in Washington: The American Political Parties
202
11
Xandra Kayden
Rancid Populism
213
13
William Greider
Campaigns and Elections: Organized Money versus Organized People?
226
20
Free Speech Requires Compaign Money
229
6
Bradley A. Smith
Campaign Cash: Dollars versus Democracy
235
11
Randy Kehler
Martin Jezer
Political Participation: Are Generation Xers Political Slackers or Innovators?
246
15
The 13th Generation: Caring Less for Good Reason
249
6
Neil Howe
Bill Strauss
America's Youth, New Forms of Political Engagement
255
6
Matthew Moseley
Congress: Can It Serve the Public Good?
261
20
The Rise of the Washington Establishment
264
8
Morris P. Fiorina
Congress and Deliberative Democracy
272
9
Joseph M. Bessette
The Presidency: Popular or Elite Democracy?
281
18
The Power to Persuade
283
7
Richard E. Neustadt
The Presidency and Elite Democracy
290
9
Bruce Miroff
Bureaucracy: Should It Be ``Banished'' from Democracy?
299
20
Reinventing Government
302
7
David Osborne
Ted Gaebler
The Case for Bureaucracy
309
10
Charles T. Goodsell
The Judiciary: What Should Its Role Be in a Democracy?
319
18
A Jurisprudence of Original Intention
321
6
Attorney General Edwin Meese III
Reading the Constitution as Twentieth-Century Americans
327
10
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.,
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Global Marketplace: Corporations versus Citizens?
337
22
America Needs a Pro-Business Foreign Policy
341
8
Jeffrey E. Garten
When Corporations Rule the World
349
10
David C. Korten
Credits
359