Citizen Democracy

by Frantzich, Stephen E.

• ISBN13: 9780742529533
• ISBN10: 0742529533
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Through a series of nineteen carefully chosen vignettes, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life-rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous and obscure engaged in extraordinary civic activity. Their causes run the gamut from civil rights to flag burning, from the Internet to the environment-but their common cause is the fact that they creatively entered the arena of national public policy making and made a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Stephen E. Frantzich is professor and former chair of the department of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
INTRODUCTION
Countering the Culture of Cynicism: Keeping the Fans in the Stands	1	(12)
THE CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY
1 Rewriting the Constitution: One Man's Journey to Lend Madison a Hand
Gregory Watson	13	(9)
FEDERALISM
2 Do Ask, Do Tell
Howard and Connie Clery, Maureen and Richard Kanka, and Donna Norris	22	(15)
CIVIL RIGHTS
3 Taking the Bus and Driving Public Policy for Us
Rosa Parks	37	(9)
4 Being a Good Sport, or, Won't You Be on My Team?
Bernice Sandler	46	(10)
CIVIL LIBERTIES
5 Let's Just Run That One Up the Flagpole
Gregory Lee (Joey) Johnson	56	(8)
6 All Dressed Down and Nowhere to Go: A Pilot's Checklist
Martha McSally	64	(5)
PUBLIC OPINION
7 Citizen.Action.Org
Shabbir Safdar and Jonah Seiger	69	(10)
INTEREST GROUPS
8 From Grief to Anger to Action: Making One MADD
Candy Lightner	79	(6)
9 Wouldn't You Just Love to Live Here?
Lois Gibbs	85	(12)
CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS
10 Registering as a Protest, or, I'll Vote for That
Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven	97	(11)
11 Changing the Ecology of Politics: Introducing a New Breed
Brian Trelstad	108	(10)
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
12 A Taxing and Revolting Job
Howard Jarvis	118	(10)
CONGRESS
13 Power Letter Writing: Women in the Military
Academies: Barbara Brimmer and Valerie Schoen	128	(9)
14 The Mystery of the Smoking Gun
Merrell Williams	137	(11)
THE PRESIDENCY
15 Just What the Doctor Ordered
Dr. Kristin Zarfos	148	(9)
THE JUDICIAL PROCESS AND THE COURTS
16 Unaffirmative Action
Carl Cohen	157	(13)
17 A Hard Guy to Live With
Jack Kevorkian	170	(12)
THE BUREAUCRACY
18 If You Can't Lick 'Em, Enjoin 'Em
Jean Anne Hlavacek and Diane Sackett Nannery	182	(9)
KIDS IN ACTION
19 Kidizen Democracy	191	(12)
From Peer Pressure to Political Pressure
Morgan and Max Lesko	192	(3)
A Monumental Dream
The "Scottsdale Six"	195	(4)
NIMBY, Not Namby-Pamby
Kory Johnson	199	(2)
Resources for Kidizens	201
CONCLUSION
Lessons for Nascent Citizens	203	(8)
Notes	211	(26)
Photo Credits	237	(2)
Index	239	(8)
About the Author	247