
Democracy's Rebirth
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Challenges to Democracy
- Manifesto
- 2 The Rise and Fall of Democracy
- Machine Democracy in Chicago
- The American Republic
- Representative Democracy
- Lessons from the Past
- 3 Income and Racial Inequality
- Inequality Today
- Economic and Racial Inequality in Chicago
- Political Consequences
- Times of Crisis
- Overcoming Inequality
- 4 Money in Politics
- Regulating Money in Politics
- Cost of Elections
- Translating Campaign Giving into Government Influence
- Public Opinion
- Public Financing and Lobbying Restrictions
- Limiting the Effect of Money in Politics
- 5 Nonparticipation
- Control by Political Parties in Chicago
- City Government
- The 2019 Chicago Mayoral Election
- Representative Democracy
- Mass and Social Media
- Citizenship Today
- Voter Participation and the Turnout Gap
- What Is to Be Done?
- 6 Polarization and the Politics of Resentment
- Divisions in Chicago
- National Polarization
- Resentment
- Polarization in Elected Officials
- Dissatisfaction with Democracy
- Polarization in Chicago
- The 1977 Mayoral Succession
- The 1983 Election
- The 1987 Mayoral Succession
- The 2019 and 2020 Elections
- United We Stand
- 7 Corruption
- Level of Corruption
- An Egregious Case
- History of Corruption in Chicago and Illinois
- Corruption in the United States
- Institutional Corruption
- Curing Corruption
- 8 Structural Problems
- Broader Structural Problems
- The Electoral College
- Gerrymandering
- Term Limits
- Voter Suppression and Automatic Voter Registration
- Electoral Integrity and Electronic Voting
- Voting Systems
- An Undemocratic Congress
- Structural Barriers to Democracy in Chicago
- Election Dates
- Sham Candidates
- Judicial Elections
- The Need for Reform
- 9 Cascading Crises
- Black Lives Matter
- Chicago's Torture Machine
- Structural Racism
- The COVID-19 Pandemic
- Economic Recession
- The 2020 Presidential Election
- Insurrection and Attempted Coup
- The Effect of Crisis
- 10 Deliberative Democracy
- Neighborhood Government in Chicago
- Forty-Fourth Ward Government
- Participatory Budgeting
- Transition Team
- Issue Voting and Governing
- New England Town Meeting
- Jefferson's Ward System
- Making Congress Deliberative
- Legislative Juries
- Other Alternatives
- Our Divisions
- Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot
- The Move to Deliberative Democracy
- 11 Spirit of Democracy
- Chicago's Rebirth
- A Democratic Movement for Change
- Solutions
- Civic Virtue
- Teaching Civic Engagement
- Democracies Do Die
- Political Action
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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