عنوان

The irony of democracy :

شابک

128587028X

شابک

9781285870281

عنوان اصلي

The irony of democracy :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

an uncommon introduction to American politics /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Louis Schubert, Thomas R. Dye, Harmon Zeigler.

وضعيت ويراست

17th edition.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Boston, MA :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cengage Learning,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxvi, 406 pages ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

1. Irony of democracy -- The meaning of elite theory -- The meaning of democracy -- Elites in a democracy -- Focus : mass distrust of the U.S. elite -- The meaning of pluralism -- How elitism and pluralism differ -- Elite and mass threats to democracy -- Focus : mass views of elite governance -- An elite theory of democracy -- 2. The elite consensus of the Founding Fathers : U.S. political principles -- Elites and masses in the new nation -- Elite preferences : inspiration for a new constitution -- Formation of a national elite -- George Washington's prestige -- The founders' governing experience -- The Founders' education -- The Founders' wealth -- The Founders national view -- Elite consensus in 1787 -- Protecting liberty and property -- Government as contract -- Republicanism -- Limited government -- Elite consensus in a world context -- Elite negotiation : conciliation and compromise -- Representation -- Slavery -- Trade and commerce -- Voter qualification -- The Constitution as an elitist document -- Taxation and the repayment of loans -- Protecting money and credit -- Opening western land to speculation -- Creating the military -- Protecting against revolution -- elitism and the structure of the national government -- National supremacy -- Republicanism in operation -- Separation of powers and checks and balances -- Judicial review -- Focus : James Madison, suppressing majority "factions" -- Ratification : an exercise in elite political skills : the Bill of Rights as an afterthought -- The constitution : an elitist interpretation -- Elites in America -- Early elite consensus : Hamilton's financial vision -- Focus : elite attitudes toward mass governance -- The rise of the West -- Elite cleavage : the Civil War -- Rise of the new industrial elite -- The Progressive Era -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- Noblesse Oblige -- The growth of government : the New Deal to the Cold War -- Technology elites -- Globalization -- Focus : hedge funds -- Corporate elites -- Government and corporate elites -- Elite policy-making institutions -- Focus : greed in the boardroom -- Power in the United States : an elitist interpretation -- Focus : the elite think tanks --

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10. Courts : elites in black robes -- Judicial review as an elitist principle -- The making of a Supreme Court Justice -- Focus : Senate confirmation as spectacle -- The structure of the Federal Court System -- Federal District courts -- Circuit courts of Appeals -- The U.S. Supreme Court -- The jurisdiction of the Federal Court System -- Appeals -- Caseloads -- Judicial power : activism versus self-restraint -- Focus : "Make it a Federal crime!" -- Stare decisis -- Original intent -- Wisdom versus constitutionality -- Supreme Court politics -- Liberal and Conservative blocs -- Do the Courts rule the nation? -- Focus : the Supreme Court and abortion -- The Courts : an elitist interpretation -- 11. Federal Bureaucracy -- Sources of bureaucratic power -- Government size and cost -- Organization of the Washington Bureaucracy -- Cabinet -- Focus : the growth in executive departments -- National Security Council -- Office of Management and Budget -- Presidential control of the bureaucracy -- Appointments -- The presidential budget -- Focus : bureaucratic maneuvers -- Continuing resolutions and government shutdowns -- Presidential vetoes of appropriations bills -- Elite fiscal responsibility? -- Entitlement spending -- Balancing the budget -- Tax politics -- The Internal Revenue Service -- Bureaucratic power, iron triangles, and revolving doors -- Implementation, regulation, and adjudication -- Focus : Capital gains taxes and the economy -- The regulatory quagmire -- Focus : the FED, money is too important to be left to elected officials -- Deregulation and reregulation -- Controlling the bureaucracy : checks and balances? -- The Federal bureaucracy : an elitist interpretation -- 12. Federalism : state and community elites -- Federalism : the division of power between national and state governments -- Power flows to the national elite -- Money and power -- The evolution of U.S. Federalism -- Focus : rising star, Governor Bobby Jindal -- Coercive Federalism -- Mass influence in the states -- The Populist Movement in the states -- The politics of state initiatives -- The old-community economic elites -- Focus : corporate elite structures in the states -- Focus : rising star, Mayor Kevin Johnson -- The new-community political elites -- Federalism : an elitist interpretation --

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13. Civil Rights : diversifying the elite -- Minorities acquiring elite status -- The history of decline of minority exclusion -- The African-American struggle for freedom -- Abolition and aftermath -- Elites and desegregation -- Focus : the early Black elite, Booker T. Washington -- Martin Luther KIng, Jr. -- The Hispanic-American search for rights -- Asian-American search for rights -- Multiracial Rights Movement -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Racial inequality and Affirmative Action -- Focus : "diversity" in higher education -- Elite versus mass response to Civil Rights -- Women's rights in the UNited States -- The Women's Movement -- Equity feminism -- Gender feminism -- Women and work -- The dual labor market and the earnings gap -- Gender equality in Civil Rights laws -- Feminism and elitism -- Women acquiring elite status -- Gay rights -- 14. The United States as global elite -- Approaches to foreign relations in the United States -- Idealism -- Realism -- Elites debate the use of military force -- War as politics -- Focus : elite foreign policy-making, the Council on Foreign Relations -- The United States in the international security system -- United Nations Security Council -- NATO -- Security threats to the United States -- Nuclear threats -- Deterrence and arms reductions -- Antiballistic missile defenses -- Nuclear terrorism -- The terrorist threat -- The war in Iraq -- Focus : David Petraeus -- The cyber threat-- The global economic elite -- The United States and global trade-- The world Trade Organization -- the International Monetary Fund -- The World Bank -- Globalization and democracy -- United States as global hegemon : an elitist interpretation -- Epilogue : what can students do? -- Appendix. The Constitution of the United States of America.

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4. Masses in the United States -- Elite gains, mass stagnation -- Worker earnings -- Deunionization -- Inequality in the United States -- Mass disaffection from politics -- Antidemocratic attitudes among the masses -- Social class and democratic attitudes -- Education and democratic attitudes -- Elite experience and democratic attitudes -- The growing tolerance of the masses -- Mass political ignorance -- Focus : mass confidence in U.S. institutions -- Ignorance and paranoia : conspiracy theory -- Mass political apathy -- The dangers of mass unrest -- Focus : popular movements, The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street -- Counterelites -- Left-wing, Right-wing, and single-issue extremism -- Elite repression -- Repression and the War on Terrorism -- How does democracy survive: -- Mass conditions : an elitist interpretation -- 5. The media : elite-mass communication -- The news makers -- the media's political functions -- Socialization -- Bashing the United States for fun and profit -- Sex and violence -- Focus : political entertainment -- Bias in television news -- Hollywood liberals -- Political power and the press -- bias and slander : freedoms of the press -- No prior restraint -- "Absence of malice" -- Politics and the internet -- Media campaigns -- Media coverage of presidential elections -- Assessing media impact -- Cognition and comprehension -- Attitudes and values -- Public opinion -- Behavior -- The media : an elitist interpretation -- 6. Elections, parties, and democracy -- The functions of elections -- Why people vote in the United States -- Political parties and elections -- Focus : images of the candidates -- Two-party politics -- Primary elections and the deterioration of the parties -- Money drives elections -- Focus : dirty politics -- Superpacs --

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7. Elites and organized interests -- Interest groups : pluralist or elitist? -- The elite bias of interest groups -- Class bias -- Dominance of business and union organizations -- Organized labor -- Focus : super lobby, the business roundtable -- Focus : billionaire activists -- Focus : are you a liberal or a conservative? -- Civil rights organizations -- Women's groups -- Gay rights groups -- How well do groups represent their members? - Focus : size and representation -- Lobbying : how organized interests influence government -- Assess -- Information -- Focus : lobbyists and influence peddlers -- Grassroots mobilization -- INterest group influence through campaign support -- PACs -- Interest groups bias against change-- Interest groups : an elitist interpretation -- 8. Congress : the legislative elite -- The elite bias of congressional recruitment -- Political entrepreneurship -- Professionalism -- Race and gender -- Focus : Representative Paul Ryan -- Whom does Congress really represent? -- Congress in disrepute -- The elaborate procedures of legislative elites -- Kill bill -- The lawmaking process -- Standing congressional committees -- Public hearings -- Committee membership -- The seniority system -- The power of the chair -- Decentralization : subcommittees and "iron triangles" -- The House Rules Committee -- Senate filibusters -- The floor vote -- Conference committees -- Fast track legislation -- Elites within elites : the congressional establishment -- Focus : Senator Al Franken -- Polarization on Capitol Hill -- Congress and the President : an unstable balance of power -- Impeachment -- Focus : congressional ethics -- Congress : an elitist interpretation -- 9. The presidency -- The president as symbolic leader -- Focus : president as superhero -- The president and mass psychology -- Presidential character -- Presidential powers of persuasion -- The president's formal powers -- Chief executive -- Chief legislator -- Chief diplomat -- Commander-in-chief -- Chief of law enforcement and grantor of pardons -- Party leader -- The vice president -- The president and Congress -- White House lobbying -- The veto power -- Limits on presidential executive power -- Executive privilege -- IMpeachment -- Focus : Watergate and the limits of presidential power -- The Obama presidency -- Focus : George W. Bush's turbulent presidency -- The presidency : an elitist interpretation --

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موضوع مستند نشده

Cultural pluralism-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Elite (Social sciences)-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cultural pluralism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Elite (Social sciences)

موضوع مستند نشده

Politics and government.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Politics and government, Textbooks.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

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0

بدون عنوان

7

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Schubert, Louis.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dye, Thomas R.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Zeigler, L. Harmon, (Luther Harmon),1936-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822170217.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

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