General Note:
"This second edition of Voices of dissent contains 14 new articles ..."--Preface.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Why a critical reader? -- pt. 1. Structure: ch. 1. Political economy: Corporate power and democracy / Edward S. Greenberg. The market as prison / Charles E. Lindblom. Why does air stink? : corporate power and public policy / Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott. Death of a small planet / Murray Bookchin ; ch. 2. Ideology and the political culture: Citizenship and liberal individualism / Robert N. Bellah [and others]. Pawer of majority opinion in America over thought / Alexis de Tocqueville. The bounds of thinkable thought / Noam Chomsky. All the usual suspects : how news shows limit political debate / David Croteau and William Hoynes. The masculine mystique / Cynthia Enloe ; ch. 3. Constitutional and state structures: American exceptionalism : the politics of fragmentation / Joshua Cohen and Juel Rogers. The dark side of the Constitution / Kenneth M. Dolbeare and Linda Medcalf. Some truths are not evident / Howard Zinn. Race and the Constitution / Thurgood Marshall -- pt. 2. Institutions and processes: ch. 4. Congress: Congress and big business / John C. Berg. Congress and iron triangles / Hedrick Smith. Still the best Congress money can buy / Philip M. Stern. Stranger in the House? : Bernie Sanders in Congress / William F. Grover ; ch. 5. The Presidency: Beyond Washington / Bruce Miroff. JFK : the arrogance of power / James Weinstein. Why Reaganism will be with us into the 21st century / Martin Shefter and Benjamin Ginsberg. Bill Clinton and the politics of change / Joseph G. Peschek ; ch. 6. Law and the courts: The law-centered politics of the United States / Mark Tushnet. Chief Justice Rehnquist / Sidney Blumenthal. Race, gender, and the Supreme Court / Deborah A. Stone. The legal politics of sexual orientation / Arthur S. Leonard -- ch. 7. Parties and elections: Why Americans don't vote / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. The class gap / Walter Dean Burnham. The incredible shrinking sound bite / Kiku Adatto. The despair of the American voter / Gordon S. Black and Benjamin D. Black. Building a third party : reflections from Vermont / Bernard Sanders -- pt. 3. Politics and vision: ch. 8. Policy changes at home and abroad: The middle-class squeeze / Kevin P. Phillips. Feminism and class consolidation / Barbara Ehrenreich. Nihilism in Black America / Cornel West. The health care fiasco / Elizabeth Chamberlain. Global village of global pillage? / Jeremy Brecher ; ch. 9. Personal responsibility and democratic citizenship: Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. On comfort and morality / Wallace Shawn. The execution class / Gary Olson. Feminism at the crossroads / Katha Pollitt. Remaking our economy / Fred Block.
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