Debating Democracy

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780618251087
• ISBN10: 0618251081
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This supplementary text offers two readings per chapter organized in a debate-style format, representing opposing viewpoints. The straightforward, thought-provoking presentation facilitates class discussion. Debate topics include Public Opinion: The American People and War, Civil Liberties and War: Debating the USA Patriot Act, Debating the Deficit and the Size of Government, Economic Equality: A Threat to Democracy? and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11: American Hegemony or International Cooperation?

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
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
Democracy: Overrated or Undervalued?	31	(21)
Democracy's Romantic Myths	34	(7)
John Mueller
The Active Citizen	41	(11)
Paul Rogat Loeb
The New Federalism: Does It Create Laboratories of Democracy or a Race to the Bottom?	52	(16)
Beyond the Beltway	55	(5)
William D. Eggers
John O'Leary
The Devil in Devolution	60	(8)
John D. Donahue
Civil Society: Does America Face a Crisis in Civic Engagement?	68	(22)
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community	72	(11)
Robert D. Putnam
America's Civic Condition: A Glance at the Evidence	83	(7)
William A. Galston
Peter Levine
Political Economy: How Democratic Is the Free Market Economy?	90	(23)
Capitalism and Freedom	93	(10)
Milton Friedman
The Market Erodes Democratic Government	103	(10)
Samuel Bowles
Richard Edwards
Civil Liberties: Does the First Amendment Permit Religious Expression in Public Institutions?	113	(21)
Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring	116	(9)
Stephen V. Monsma
Piety Versus ``Secular Humanism'': A Phony War	125	(9)
Marvin E. Frankel
Civil Rights: How Far Have We Progressed?	134	(22)
One Nation, Indivisible	136	(9)
Stephan Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom
A Country of Strangers	145	(11)
David K. Shipler
Public Opinion: The American People After September 11	156	(16)
The Age of Conflict: Politics and Culture After September 11	159	(7)
David Brooks
Which America Will We Be Now?	166	(6)
Bill Moyers
The New Media and the Internet: Corporate Wasteland or Democratic Frontier?	172	(20)
The Daily We	174	(11)
Cass R. Sunstein
The Power of the Producers	185	(7)
Robert McChesney
Political Parties and Elections: The 2000 Presidential Election and U.S. Democracy	192	(23)
One Nation, Slightly Divisible	194	(11)
David Brooks
What We Must Overcome	205	(10)
Lani Guinier
Campaigns and Elections: Organized Money Versus (Dis)Organized People?	215	(21)
Free Speech Requires Campaign Money	218	(6)
Bradley A. Smith
Dollars and Votes	224	(12)
Dan Clawson
Alan Neustadtl
Mark Weller
Local Democracy: Is Suburban Sprawl the Realization or Violation of Democratic Values?	236	(19)
Suburban Myth	240	(6)
Gregg Easterbrook
The Case Against Sprawl	246	(9)
Todd Swanstrom
Congress: Can It Serve the Public Good?	255	(20)
The Rise of the Washington Establishment	258	(8)
Morris P. Fiorina
Congress and Deliberative Democracy	266	(9)
Joseph M. Bessette
The Presidency: How Much Difference Does the Individual Make?	275	(23)
Lessons from the Modern Presidency	278	(7)
Fred I. Greenstein
The Changing Political Structures of Presidential Leadership	285	(13)
Stephen Skowronek
The Judiciary: What Should Its Role Be in a Democracy?	298	(18)
A Jurisprudence of Original Intention	300	(6)
Edwin Meese III
Reading the Constitution as Twentieth-Century Americans	306	(10)
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Economic Inequality: A Threat to Democracy?	316	(20)
Myths of Rich and Poor	320	(6)
W. Michael Cox
Richard Alm
The Spiral of Inequality	326	(10)
Paul Krugman
The United States and the Global Economy: Serving Citizens or Corporate Elites?	336	(20)
Revolution Is U.S.	339	(8)
Thomas Friedman
When Corporations Rule the World	347	(9)
David C. Korten
U.S. Foreign Policy: What Should It Be After September 11?	356	(21)
The Real New World Order	359	(8)
Charles Krauthammer
On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism	367	(10)
Benjamin R. Barber
Credits	377