The Democratic Debate examines the struggle between the elite and popular models of democracy which, the authors argue, have alternated as the dominant vision in America since its founding. The text uses the standard of popular democracy to examine the United States from anti-federalism to contemporary social movements, and includes new material on the 2000 elections, the early months of George W. Bush's presidency, recent protests against the World Trade Organization, September 11, and more.New Ideas boxes give examples of innovative solutions to current problems and issues in government.Making a Difference chapter boxes focus on people, famous and otherwise, whose actions demonstrate how individuals can make a difference in democracy.A Closer Look features examine contemporary issues, such as mobilizing the Latino vote, from the perspective of both democratic models examined in the text.

The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Miroff, Bruce

Seidelman, Raymond

Swanstrom, Todd

Politics & Government

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Focusing on the tension between elite and popular models, individuals who made a difference, and recent events, THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE makes American democracy both relevant and compelling.

The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change

Education & Teaching

De Luca, Tom

Schools & Teaching

Wadsworth Publishing

The Democratic Debate examines the struggle between the elite and popular models of democracy which, the authors argue, have alternated as the dominant vision in America since its founding. The text uses the standard of popular democracy to examine the United States from anti-federalism to contemporary social movements. Special attention is given to people, famous and otherwise, whose actions demonstrate how individuals can make a difference in democracy. Thorough coverage of recent events includes a discussion of Enron and issues of corporate responsibility, the evolution of the Christian Right into a mass movement, the protests against the War in Iraq, and the Terry Schiavo case as it relates to Federalism.

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

This supplementary text offers two readings per chapter organized in a debate-style format, representing opposing viewpoints. The straightforward, thought-provoking presentation facilitates class discussion. Debate topics include Public Opinion: The American People and War, Civil Liberties and War: Debating the USA Patriot Act, Debating the Deficit and the Size of Government, Economic Equality: A Threat to Democracy? and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11: American Hegemony or International Cooperation?

Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics

Designed to accompany any American Government text, this engaging reader features a debate-style format that includes two readings--each representing opposing viewpoints--per chapter. The unique format and current content give this book a distinctive advantage over other readers. The Sixth Edition incorporates up-to-date chapter introductions and new debates, for a fresh look at the hot-button issues in modern American government.

Disenchanted Realists explores the intertwined fate of American political science and nineteenth and twentieth century liberal reforms. Beginning with the pre-history of political science in the 1880s, Seidelman and Harpham trace the development of political science in the Progressive period, the 1920s, the New Deal, the Cold War, the tumultuous sixties, and the crisis-ridden presidencies of Carter and Reagan. Disenchanted Realists discusses the assumptions, hopes, and understandings of prominent liberal reformers―Woodrow Wilson, Lester Frank Ward, Charles Truman, V.O. Key, Jr., Theodore Lowi, and Walter Dean Burnham. Within this framework, the authors contend that political science in America has been closely allied with a continuing attack and ever-present disenchantment with the forms and philosophy of State organizations and mass politics.

Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis (Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)

State University of New York Press

Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984

History

State Univ of New York Pr

Bundle: The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change, 5th + Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics, 7th

Cengage Learning'

Focusing on the tension between elite and popular models of democracy, individuals and movements that made a difference, and recent events, THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE makes American democracy become more relevant, compelling, and lively.

New edition of the provocative history of the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy. When it first appeared three decades ago, Raymond Seidelman’s provocative study of the history of political science both attracted a great deal of attention and generated vibrant controversy. Where prior studies of the history of political science had concentrated on the evolution of the scientific study of politics, Seidelman placed his focus on the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy. Examining paired sets of political science luminaries over a century, he finds recurrent hopes that a “science of politics” can be a “science for politics,” and recurrent frustrations that neither elites nor democratic publics respond to the findings of political science or defer to its claims of scientific authority. Analyzing the reasons for political science’s limited impact on democratic reform, Seidelman raises the prospect that the progressive dreams of American political science, rising and falling over the course of a century, may finally be exhausted. For this new edition, Bruce Miroff and Stephen Skowronek have written a foreword that relates the genesis of the book and the career of the late Ray Seidelman, while James Farr, a distinguished scholar of political science history, has contributed an extensive afterword. Whether readers concur with or dispute Seidelman’s conclusions about the practical significance of political science, they will be challenged by the scope and power of Disenchanted Realists. The book invites a new generation of political scientists to examine the problematic development of the discipline they practice and to reflect on the public meanings of what they do in their own careers.

Disenchanted Realists, Second Edition: Political Science and the American Crisis (Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)

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The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics

The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change

The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics

Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics

Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics

Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis (Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)

Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984

Bundle: The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change, 5th + Debating Democracy: A Reader in American Politics, 7th

The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change

Disenchanted Realists, Second Edition: Political Science and the American Crisis (Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues)