Democracy unchained : how to rebuild government for the people /
The presidential election of 2016 highlighted some long-standing flaws in American democracy and added a few new ones. Across the political spectrum, most Americans do not believe that democracy is delivering on its promises of fairness, justice, shared prosperity or security in a changing world. Th...
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New York :
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Populism and democracy / Yascha Mounk
- Reconstructing our constitutional democracy / K. Sabeel Rahman
- Restoring healthy party competition / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- When democracy becomes something else : the problem of elections and what to do about it / Andrew Gumbel
- The best answer to money in politics after Citizens United : public campaign financing in the empire state and beyond / Chisun Lee
- Remaking the presidency after Trump / Jeremi Suri
- The problem of presidentialism / Stephen Skowronek
- Renewing the American democratic faith / Steven C. Rockefeller
- American land, American democracy / Eric Freyfogle
- Race and democracy : the Kennedys, Obama, Trump, and us / Michael Eric Dyson
- Liberty and justice for all : Latina activist efforts to strengthen democracy in 2018 / Maria Hinojosa
- What Black women teach us about democracy / Andra Gillespie and Nadia E. Brown
- Engines of democracy : racial justice and cultural power / Rashad Robinson
- Civics and environmental education : protecting the planet and our democracy / Judy Braus
- The Supreme Court's legitimacy crisis and constitutional democracy's future / Dawn Johnsen
- Can democracy survive the internet? / David Hickton
- The new New Deal : how to re-regulate capitalism / Robert Kuttner
- First understand why they're winning : how to save democracy from the anti-immigrant far right / Sasha Polakow-Suransky
- No time left : how the system is failing to address our ultimate crisis / Bill McKibben
- Powering democracy through clean energy / Denise G. Fairchild
- The long crisis : American foreign policy before and after Trump / Jessica Tuchman Mathews
- The case for strong government / William S. Becker
- The states / Nick Rathod
- Democracy in a struggling swing state / Amy Hanauer
- Can independent voters save American democracy? Why 42 percent of American voters are independent, and how they can transform our political system / Jaqueline Salit and Thom Reilly
- Philanthropy and democracy / Stephen B. Heintz
- Keeping the republic / Dan Moulthrop
- The future of democracy / Mayor Ras Baraka
- Building a research university where all people matter / Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars, and Derrick M. Anderson
- Biophilia and direct democracy / Timothy Beatley
- Purpose-driven capitalism / Mindy Lubber
- Restoring democracy : nature's trust, human survival, and constitutional fiduciary governance / Mary Christina Wood.