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100	1		_aMiroff, Bruce. _93309 _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe democratic debate : _ban introduction to American politics / _cBruce Miroff, Raymond Seidelman, Todd Swanstrom.
250			_afourth edition
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c[2007]
264		4	_cc2007.
300			_axxiv, 576, A-88 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (A-35-A-61) and index.
505	0		_aThe democratic debate -- The revolution and the Constitution: origins of the democratic debate -- The American political economy -- Public opinion and political culture: can the people be fooled? -- Where have all the voters gone? -- The media: who sets the political agenda? -- U.S. partie: who has a voice? -- Campaigns: organized money versus organized people -- Interest group politics: elite bias -- Mass movement politics: the great equalizer -- Congress: a vehicle for popular democracy? -- Presidential leadership and elite democracy -- Bureaucracy: myth and reality -- The judiciary and the democratic debate -- State and local politics: the dilemma of federalism -- Civil liberties and civil rights -- Economic and social policy: the democratic connections -- Foreign policy in the national security state -- The Declaration of Independence in Congress -- The Constitution of the United States of America -- Federalist No. 10 -- Anti-Federalist Paper, October 18, 1757 -- Presidents of the United States -- Glossary.
520			_aPresents facts of American politics, organised around the theme of democracy. Each chapter examines the tension between elite and popular models of democracy and the impact of that tension on institutions, processes, and policy. This book presents a picture of popular democrats, from the anti-federalists to contemporary social movements.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government. _93310
700	1		_aSeidelman, Raymond. _93311 _eco-author.
700	1		_aSwanstrom, Todd. _93312 _eco-author.
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