Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
Language: English
Published by The New Press, 2020
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- Title
- Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1620975130
- ISBN 13
- 9781620975138
The presidential election of 2016 highlighted some long-standing flaws in American democracy and added a few new ones. Across the political spectrum, most Americans do not believe that democracy is delivering on its promises of fairness, justice, shared prosperity, or security in a changing world. The nation cannot even begin to address climate change and economic justice if it remains paralyzed by political gridlock.
Democracy Unchained is about making American democracy work to solve problems that have long impaired our system of governance. The book is the collective work of thirty of the most perceptive writers, practitioners, scientists, educators, and journalists writing today, who are committed to moving the political conversation from the present anger and angst to the positive and constructive change necessary to achieve the full promise of a durable democracy that works for everyone and protects our common future. Including essays by Yasha Mounk on populism, Chisun Lee on money and politics, Ras Baraka on building democracy from the ground up, and Bill McKibben on climate, Democracy Unchained is the articulation of faith in democracy and will be required reading for all who are working to make democracy a reality.
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction
David W. Orr
Part I. The Crisis of Democracy
Populism and Democracy
Yascha Mounk
Reconstructing Our Constitutional Democracy
K. Sabeel Rahman
Restoring Healthy Party Competition
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
When Democracy Becomes Something Else: The Problem of Elections and What to Do About It
Andrew Gumbel
The Best Answer to Money in Politics After Citizens United: Public Campaign Financing in the Empire State and Beyond
Chisun Lee
Remaking the Presidency After Trump
Jeremi Suri
The Problem of Presidentialism
Stephen Skowronek
Part II. Foundations of Democracy
Renewing the American Democratic Faith
Steven C. Rockefeller
American Land, American Democracy
Eric Freyfogle
Race and Democracy: The Kennedys, Obama, Trump, and Us
Michael Eric Dyson
Liberty and Justice for All: Latina Activist Efforts to Strengthen Democracy in 2018
Maria Hinojosa
What Black Women Teach Us About Democracy
Andra Gillespie and Nadia E. Brown
Engines of Democracy: Racial Justice and Cultural Power
Rashad Robinson
Civic and Environmental Education: Protecting the Planet and Our Democracy
Judy Braus
The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Crisis and Constitutional Democracy’s Future
Dawn Johnsen
Part III. Policy Challenges
Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
David Hickton
The New New Deal: How to Reregulate Capitalism
Robert Kuttner
First Understand Why They're Winning: How to Save Democracy from the Anti-Immigrant
Far Right
Sasha Polakow-Suransky
No Time Left: How the System Is Failing to Address Our Ultimate Crisis
Bill McKibben
Powering Democracy Through Clean Energy
Denise G. Fairchild
The Long Crisis: American Foreign Policy Before and After Trump
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Part IV. Who Acts, and How?
The Case for Strong Government
William S. Becker
The States
Nick Rathod
Democracy in a Struggling Swing State
Amy Hanauer
Can Independent Voters Save American Democracy? Why 42 Percent of American Voters Are Independent and How They Can Transform Our Political System
Jaqueline Salit and Thom Reilly
Philanthropy and Democracy
Stephen B. Heintz
Keeping the Republic
Dan Moulthrop
The Future of Democracy
Mayor Ras Baraka
Building a University Where All People Matter
Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars, and Derrick M. Anderson
Biophilia and Direct Democracy
Timothy Beatley
Purpose-Driven Capitalism
Mindy Lubber
Restoring Democracy: Nature's Trust, Human Survival, and Constitutional Fiduciary Governance 397
Mary Christina Wood
Conclusion
Ganesh Sitaraman
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About the Author
Andrew Gumbel is a British-born journalist, based in Los Angeles, who has won awards for his work as an investigative reporter, a political columnist, and a feature writer. For more than twenty years he worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and the British newspapers The Guardian and The Independent, covering stories in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. He covered the first democratic elections in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall and has frequently reported on contested or suspect elections since in Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Haiti, and, since 2000, in the United States. He is the author of Down for the Count and Won't Lose This Dream and the co-editor (with David W. Orr, William S. Becker, and Bakari Kitwana) of Democracy Unchained, all from The New Press, and the author of Oklahoma City.
Bakari Kitwana is a journalist and activist in the area of hip-hop and black youth political engagement and a co-editor (with David Orr, William Becker, and Andrew Gumbel) of Democracy Unchained (The New Press).
William Becker is executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and the co-editor (with David Orr, Andrew Gumbel, and Bakari Kitwana) of Democracy Unchained (The New Press).
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