Congress and the people : deliberative democracy on trial / Donald R. Wolfensberger.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfensberger, Donald R.
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > History.
United States. > Congress > Reform > History.
Democracy > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Making a constitution
  • The Bill of Rights : Madison gets religion
  • The right to petition : the long drive
  • Congress and the progressive era
  • The Initiative and Referendum Movement
  • National referendum proposals and the isolationist impulse
  • The dawning of the sunshine seventies
  • A window on Congress : televising floor debates
  • The revival of direct democracy proposals
  • The road to the Republican Revolution
  • The road to governance : revolution, reform, and reality
  • Coming full circle : the complete revolution?
  • Term limits and the scarlet letter
  • The electronic Congress
  • The curtain falls twice on the House
  • The future of deliberative democracy.