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The Democratic Debate, Second Edition
Bruce Miroff, Raymond Seidelman, Todd Swanstrom

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Chapter 1	Introduction: The Democratic Debate
Chapter 2	The Revolution and the Constitution: Origins of the Democratic Debate
Chapter 3	Public Opinion and Political Culture: Should Citizens Count?
Chapter 4	The American Political Economy
Chapter 5	Where Have All the Voters Gone?
Chapter 6	The Media: Who Sets the Politcal Agenda?
Chapter 7	Are the Parties Over?
Chapter 8	Campaigns: Organized Money vs. Organized People
Chapter 9	Interest Groups: Elite Bias
Chapter 10	Mass-Movement Politics: The Great Equalizer
Chapter 11	Congress: A Vehicle for Popular Democracy
Chapter 12	Presidential Leadership and Elite Democracy
Chapter 13	Bureaucracy: Myth and Reality
Chapter 14	The Judiciary and the Democratic Debate
Chapter 15	State and Local Politics: The Dilemma of Federalism
Chapter 16	Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Chapter 17	Economic and Social Policy: the Democratic Connections
Chapter 18	Foreign Policy in the National Security State
Chapter 19	Afterword: The Prospects for Popular Democracy