Faultlines : Debating the Issues in American Politics

by Canon, David T.; Coleman, John J.; Mayer, Kenneth R.

• ISBN13: 9780393924855
• ISBN10: 0393924858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Political Culture: A Place for Religion in Politics?	1	(10)
The Faith-Based Initiative Two Years Later: Examining the Potential, Progress and Problems	2	(9)
Stanley Carlson-Thies
Barry Lynn
Constitutional Amendments and Structural Change	11	(10)
What's Wrong with Constitutional Amendments?	12	(3)
Kathleen M. Sullivan
Submitted Statement before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, March 28, 1998	15	(6)
George Allen
New Federalism and Devolution	21	(9)
Our Discriminating Court	22	(4)
Jeffrey Rosen
Are Federalism and the States Really Anti-Civil Rights as Liberals Often Claim?	26	(4)
Marci Hamilton
Civil Liberties: The Tradeoff between Security and Freedom	30	(9)
The Progressive [Editors], Casualties of War	31	(3)
1984 in 2003?	34	(5)
Ramesh Ponnuru
Affirmative Action in Higher Education	39	(19)
Dissent in Barbara Grutter v. Lee Bollinger, et al. (2003)	40	(8)
Justice Clarence Thomas
Brief of the Clinical Legal Education Association as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents, in Barbara Grutter v. Lee Bollinger, et al. (2003)	48	(10)
Timothy A. Nelsen
Frances P. Kao
Eric J. Gorman
Amy M. Gardner
Representation in Congress: The Politics of Pork	58	(16)
A Nation at War: Paying for the War; Senate Rolls a Pork Barrel into War Bill	59	(3)
David Firestone
Rolling Out the Pork Barrel	62	(3)
Sean Paige
Roll Out the Barrel: The Case Against the Case Against Pork	65	(9)
Jonathan Cohn
An Imperial Presidency?	74	(12)
The Imperial Presidency Redux	75	(1)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Too Much History	76	(6)
Noemie Emery
Congress Goes AWOL	82	(4)
John Isaacs
Evaluating Bureaucratic Performance: Can Government Be Run Like a Business?	86	(14)
What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It	87	(7)
James Q. Wilson
General Accounting Office, Department of State: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges	94	(6)
The Judicial Nomination Process	100	(14)
The Role of the Senate in Judicial Confirmation	101	(4)
Stephen B. Presser
The Right's Judicial Juggernaut	105	(9)
Jack Newfield
Ballot Initiatives: Voice of the People or the Powerful?	114	(12)
Dangerous Initiatives: A Snake in the Grass Roots	115	(4)
David S. Broder
Revitalizing Democracy	119	(2)
Lino A. Graglia
Taking (Back) the Initiative	121	(5)
David Sarasohn
The Electoral College: Reform It or Leave It Alone?	126	(18)
Not the People's Choice	127	(8)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
No Need to Repeal the Electoral College	135	(6)
Norman Ornstein
Reform the Electoral College, Don't Toss It	141	(3)
James Glassman
Political Parties: Which Way for the Democrats?	144	(17)
Deciphering the Democrats' Debacle	145	(9)
Ruy Teixeira
Democrats Go Off the Cliff	154	(7)
David Brooks
Interest Groups: A Force for Change or the Status Quo?	161	(13)
The Group Basis of Politics: Notes for a Theory	162	(5)
Earl Latham
The Hyperpluralism Trap	167	(7)
Jonathan Rauch
Regulating the Media	174	(11)
Toxic Media	175	(3)
Wendy Kaminer
Toxic Media versus Toxic Censorship	178	(7)
Michael Massing
Wendy Kaminer
Government and the Economy: Tax Policy and the Budget	185	(6)
Whose Tax Cuts?	186	(2)
Robert B. Reich
Nine Simple Guidelines for Pro-Growth Tax Policy	188	(3)
Daniel J. Mitchell
Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins, Who Loses?	191	(12)
Stock Market Declines' Effect on the Social Security Reform Debate	192	(6)
Andrew G. Biggs
Can Small Investors Survive Social Security Privatization?	198	(5)
Brooke Harrington
Foreign Policy: Nation Building	203	(14)
Nation Building	204	(6)
Marina Ottaway
Bush Is Flunking Reconstruction 101	210	(3)
Stan Crock
A Little Patience Please	213	(4)
David Pryce-Jones
Permissions Acknowledgments	217