The meaning of American democracy
By: edited by Robert Y. Shapiro.
Publisher: Academy of Political Science
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781884853050
Subjects: Democracy -- United States; Representative government and representation -- United States; Political participation -- United States; Elections -- United States; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Iraq War, 2003-; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The meaning of American democracy / Robert Y. Shapiro; title: Democracy, institutions, and rights; title: What political institutions does large-scale democracy require? / Robert A. Dahl; title: Prescriptions for a new national democracy / Michael Lind; title: Shoring up the right to vote for president: a modest proposal / Alexander Keyssar; title: From September 11 to Iraq; title: American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy from September 11 to the Iraq war / Paul T. McCartney; title: Deciding on war against Iraq: institutional failures / Louis Fisher; title: Misperceptions, the media, and the Iraq war / Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay, and Evan Lewis; title: Do detainees have constitutional rights?: Excerpts from Hamdi v. Rumsfeld United; title: States Supreme Court; title: Voting, elections, and partisanship; title: Polarized politics and the 2004 congressional and presidential elections / Gary C. Jacobson; title: Why Bush won the presidential election of 2004: incumbency, ideology, terrorism, and turnout / James E. Campbell; title: Why elections are not enough; title: The complications of American democracy: elections are not enough / Demetrios James Caraley.