This important new book explores the problem of America's decreasing involvement in its own affairs. D emocracy at Risk reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of representative democracy.
"Documents how recent trends in civic engagement have been shaped by political institutions and public policies and recommends ways to increase the amount, quality, and distribution of civic engagement, focusing on elections, the metropolis ...
How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public Jennifer L. Merolla, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister ... second edition FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER AND BRYAN D. JONES The Private Abuse of the Public Interest LAWRENCE D. BROWN AND LAWRENCE R. JACOBS The Party ...
"Documents how recent trends in civic engagement have been shaped by political institutions and public policies and recommends ways to increase the amount, quality, and distribution of civic engagement, focusing on elections, the metropolis ...
Democracy at Risk: How Schools Can Lead
Lays out the nature of the large-scale changes in American economic performance over recent years and their policy implications for the haves, the have-somes and the have-nots. The author asks...
"-Library JournalCiting alarming statistics, Jeff Gates convincingly argues that the current economic boom is largely a mirage, buoyed by policies that continue to reward the wealthy and punish the poor.
The year 2000 is the first election year of the twenty- first century. For attorney-activist Jeff Gates, it represents the ideal occasion to own up to the failings of our...
Democracy at Risk: The Growth of Nationalism and Extreme Right Parties as Threat to the EU