| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
x, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
People, passions, and power |
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People, passions, and power.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Countering the Culture of Cynicism: Keeping the Fans in the Stands -- Constitution and Democratic Theory -- 1. Rewriting the Constitution: One Man's Journey to Lend Madison a Hand / Gregory Watson -- Federalism -- 2. Do Ask, Do Tell / Howard Clery, Connie Clery, Maureen Kanka, Richard Kanka and Donna Norris -- Civil Rights -- 3. Taking the Bus and Driving Public Policy for Us / Rosa Parks -- 4. Being a Good Sport, or, Won't You Be on My Team? / Bernice Sandler -- Civil Liberties -- 5. Let's Just Run That One Up the Flagpole / Gregory Lee Johnson -- 6. All Dressed Down and Nowhere to Go: A Pilot's Checklist / Martha MeSally -- Media -- 7. From Old Bulls to Blogs: The Old Media Confronts the New Media / The CBS Bloggers -- Interest Groups -- 8. From Grief to Anger to Action: Making One MADD / Candy Lightner -- 9. Wouldn't You Just Love to Live Here? / Lois Gibbs -- Campaigns and Elections -- 10. Registering as a Protest, or, I'll Vote for That / Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven -- 11. Changing the Ecology of Politics: Introducing a New Breed / Brian Trelstad -- Direct Democracy -- 12. Taxing and Revolting Job / Howard Jarvis -- Congress -- 13. Power Letter Writing: Women in the Military Academies / Barbara Brimmer and Valerie Schoen -- 14. Mystery of the Smoking Gun / Merrell Williams -- Presidency -- 15. Just What the Doctor Ordered / Kristin Zarfos -- 16. When Worlds Come Crashing Down / The Jersey Girls -- Judicial Process and the Courts -- 17. Unaffirmative Action / Carl Cohen -- Bureaucracy -- 18. Do unto Others, Don't Be a Tattletale / Joe Darby -- 19. If You Can't Lick 'Em, Enjoin 'Em / Jean Anne Hlavacek and Diane Sackett Nannery -- Short Shots With Careful Aim -- 20. Oh My ... / Michael Newdow -- Wrong Snuff / Ken Weaver -- Attack the Big Mac Attack / John Banzhaf -- Special Delivery from Santa Claus / Roger Durbin -- Kids in Action -- 21. Kidizen Democracy -- From Peer Pressure to Political Pressure / Morgan Lesko and Max Lesko -- Monumental Dream / The "Scottsdale Six" -- Home Sweet Home / Nick Dupree -- You Can't Say That Again! / Joseph Frederick -- Unfit to a T / Alan Newsom -- Conclusion: Lessons for Nascent Citizen. |
| Summary |
"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." "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."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Political participation -- United States.
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Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Frantzich, Stephen E. Citizen democracy. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2008 (OCoLC)653331111 |
| ISBN |
9780742564459 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0742564452 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780742564466 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0742564460 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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