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Citizen Democracy


Citizen Democracy

Political Activism in a Cynical Age
3rd Edition

von: Stephen E. Frantzich

47,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.08.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780742573482
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 292

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Apathy and antipathy toward politics are epidemic. Citizen Democracy provides the antidote. In this revised and updated edition, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life—rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous and obscure—as they choose to become involved in politics at a level to which readers can relate. Some of the stories contain unexpected twists. Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, now works as a liquor industry lobbyist and argues that MADD has gone too far. College freshman Gregory Watson reacted to receiving a OCO on a political science paper by quitting school and becoming the driving force behind passage of a constitutional amendment that had been the subject of his paper. Two young women independently wrote letters of application to the U.S. Naval Academy and in the process moved military education in the direction of gender neutrality. Citizen Democracy shows ordinary people engaged in extraordinary civic activity. Their causes run the gamut from civil rights to flag burning, from the Internet to the environment—but their common cause is the fact that they creatively entered the arena of national public policy making and made a difference.
Through a series of carefully chosen vignettes, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life-rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous and obscure engaged in extraordinary civic activity. Their causes run the gamut from civil rights to flag burning, from the Internet to the environment-but their common cause is the fact that they creatively entered the arena of national public policy making and made a difference.
<br>Chapter 1 Introduction
<br>Chapter 2 The Constitution and Democratic Theory
<br>Chapter 3 Federalism
<br>Chapter 4 Civil Rights
<br>Chapter 5 Civil Liberties
<br>Chapter 6 Media
<br>Chapter 7 Interest Groups
<br>Chapter 8 Campaigns and Elections
<br>Chapter 9 Direct Democracy
<br>Chapter 10 Congress
<br>Chapter 11 The Presidency
<br>Chapter 12 The Judical Process and the Courts
<br>Chapter 13 The Bureaucracy
<br>Chapter 14 Short Shots with Careful Aim
<br>Chapter 15 Kids in Action
<br>Chapter 16 Conclusion
Stephen E. Frantzich is professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy.

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