Faultlines : debating the issues in American politics /
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2007]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Political culture: what does it mean to be an American?
- One nation, out of many / Samuel P. Huntington
- Patriot games / Louis Menand
- Is amending the Constitution risky?
- What's wrong with Constitutional amendments? / Kathleen M. Sullivan
- Constitutional amendments and the constitutional common law / Adrian Vermeule
- Federalism: state power or national power?
- Putting federalism to sleep / Nelson Lund
- Supreme substances / John Tabin
- Jumping frogs, endangered toads, and California's medical-marijuana law / George J. Annas
- Civil liberties: the tradeoff between security and freedom
- Casualties of war / The Progressive
- How to "connect the dots" / Andrew C. McCarthy
- Civil rights: affirmative action in higher education
- Dissent in Barbara Grutter v. Lee Bollinger, et al. (2003) / Justice Clarence Thomas
- Brief of the Clinical Legal Education as amicus curiae supporting respondents, in Barbara Grutter v. Lee Bollinger, et al. (2003) / Timothy A. Nelsen, Frances P. Kao, Eric J. Gorman, and Amy M. Gardner
- Public opinion: is a polarized America myth or reality?
- What culture wars? debunking the myth of a polarized America / Morris P. Fiorina
- How divided are we? and Morris P. Fiorrina's Letter in response to Wilson / James Q. Wilson
- Blogs and the mainstream media
- The ascent of blogging / David D. Perlmutter and Misti McDaniel
- Democracy and filtering / Cass R. Sunstein
- Blogs challenge newspaper standards / Ted Vaden
- Ballot initiatives: voice of the people or the powerful?
- Dangerous initiatives: a snake in the grass roots / David S. Broder
- Revitalizing democracy / Lino A. Graglia
- Taking (back) the initiative / David Sarasohn
- Is it time for a new third party?
- Third time / Peggy Noonan
- But is a third party possible? / Ryan Lizza
- Farewell address / Representative Tom Delay
- Don't worry, be happy / David Brooks
- The electoral college: reform it or leave it alone?
- Not the people's choice / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- No need to repeal the electoral college / Norman Ornstein
- Reform the electoral college, don't toss it / James Glassman
- Interest groups: a force for change or the status quo?
- The group basis of politics: notes for a theory / Earl Latham
- The hyperpluralism trap / Jonathan Rauch
- Representation in congress: the politics of pork
- Rolling out the pork barrel / Sean Paige
- Roll out the barrel: the case against the case against pork / Jonathan Cohn
- Earmarked men / Representative Jeff Flake
- Earnest earmarks / Senator Larry Craig and Represenative Mike Simpson
- An imperial presidency?
- The imperial presidency redux / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Congress goes AWOL / John Isaacs
- FISA vs. the Constitution / Robert F. Turner
- Evaluating bureaucratic performance: can government be run like a business?
- What government agencies do and why they do it / James Q. Wilson
- Bigger and better / Jacob Hacker
- Judicial confirmation hearings: what role for the senate?
- The art of testifying / Janes Malcolm
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Senator John Cornyn
- Questioning justice: law and politics in judicial confirmation hearings / Robert Post and Reva Siegel
- Economic policy: should government reduce income inequality
- Income inequality, and its cost / Anna Bernasek
- Still movin' on up / Donald Luskin
- Inequality and the American dream / The Economist
- Social policy: who wins and who loses if social security is privatized?
- Stock market declines' effect on the social security reform debate / Andrew G. Biggs
- Can small investors survive social security privatization? / Brooke Harrington
- Foreign policy: can nation building succeed?
- Nation building / Marina Ottaway
- Are failed states a threat to America? / Justin Logan and Christopher Preble.