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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Other Authors: Orr, David W., 1944- (Editor), Gumbel, Andrew (Editor), Kitwana, Bakari (Editor), Becker, William S. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [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.