Reader in American Politics
Published on 1. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-56643-012-8 (ISBN)
Description
Burnham selects and introduces some of the articles on politics and government found in "The American Prospect", an independent policy journal founded during the Reagan-Bush era, as a result of the need to refurbish classical liberal ideas by means of a constructive dialogue involving academics, journalists, and political figures. The first section on the fundamental values of liberalism features essays by sociologist Paul Starr and journalist Robert Kuttner dealing with the question of salvaging liberalism from the failures of Eastern European socialism, an ideology that polarized the political spectrum in the West. Turning to public involvement and debate, the next section offers White House pollster Stanley Greenberg's essay on reconstructing democratic vision and journalist John Judis's analysis of interest-group politics. The last section looks to basic governmental institutions and to the question of bureaucracy.
It features Nelson Polsby of the University of Berkeley speaking out on the growing disillusionment with today's politicians, and spotlights Gene Sperling, deputy White House assistant on economic policy, discussing the Supreme Court as an institution that can rise above the special interests dominating politics today.
It features Nelson Polsby of the University of Berkeley speaking out on the growing disillusionment with today's politicians, and spotlights Gene Sperling, deputy White House assistant on economic policy, discussing the Supreme Court as an institution that can rise above the special interests dominating politics today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56643-012-8 (9781566430128)
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Content
American politics in the 1990s, Walter Dean Burnham. Part 1 Foundations: the liberal idea, Stephen Holmes; liberalism after socialism, Paul Starr; liberalism, socialism, and democracy, Robert Knuttner; the prosperous community - social capital and public life, Robert D. Putnam; race, gender, and the Supreme Court, Deborah A. Stone; Lani Guinier's constitution, Randall Kennedy; should we compromise on abortion?, Walter Dellinger; civility and its discontents, Leslie Epstein; the reconstruction of rights, Benjamin R. Barber. Part 2 Linkage - the publics around government: vanishing voters, Richard M. Valelly; reconstructing the democratic vision, Stanley B. Greenberg; the myth of the new democrat, Jeff Faux; friend or faux?, Will Marshall; the evasion of politics, Jeff Faux; the politics of repudiation 1992 - edging toward upheaval, Walter Dean Burnham; voters in the cross hairs, Marshall Ganz; crediting the voters - a new beginning for campaign finance, Bruce Ackerman; talk of the tube - how to get teledemocracy right, James S. Fishkin; citizen organizing: many movements, no majority, Karen Paget; the pressure elite - inside the narrow world of advocacy group politics, John B. Judis. Part 3 Institutions: divided they govern, Richard M. Valelly; Congress without cohabitation - the Democrats' morning-after, Robert Kuttner; constitutional mischief - what's wrong with term limitations, Nelson W. Polsby; a memo on presidential transition, Richard E. Neustadt; can government work?, Paul Starr; government lite, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr; damaged goods - before reinventing government, Clinton needs to repair it, Jonathan S. Cohn; constitutional politics and the conservative court, Cass R. Sunstein; does the Supreme Court matter?, Gene B. Sperling; Cass R Sunstein responds, Cass R. Sunstein; the political court, Randall Kennedy.