Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
American Government: the clash of issues
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Edited by James A. Burkhart, Samuel Krislov [and] Raymond L. Lee
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Fourth edition
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1972]
- Physical Details
-
- xvi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780130269553, 0130269557
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The state of America: upheaval or regeneration? -- Revolution by consciousness / Charles A. Reich -- Charles Reich ; a negative view / Herbert Marcuse -- Who minds the store? / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The cultural contradiction / Daniel Bell -- Protean man and the new history / Robert Jay Lifton -- The cooling of America -- A paralysis of the will / John W. Gardner -- Movement to regain sovereignty / James Reston -- Democracy or direction: theory and practice -- Is the common man too commmon? -- Dissection of the mass man / Jose Ortega Y Gasset -- American historians and the ideal of the democratic man / Irving Kristol -- What system of government best satisfies man's needs? -- The case for control and direction / Mao Tse-Tung -- Comparative politics: a developmental approach / Gabriel A. Almond and G. Bingham Powell, Jr. -- More power to everybody / Max Ways -- Is the United States really democratic? -- Pluralist democracy in the United States / Robert A. Dahl -- The decline of liberal democracy / Harvey Wheeler -- The Constitution: frame or framework? -- The Constitution: flexible symbol or emodiment of an ideology? --American society / Robin M. Williams, Jr. -- This is a republic, not a democracy / the John Birch Society -- The Constituion as instrument: who benefits? -- Three-fifths of a man / Floyd McKissick -- The greening of America / Charles A. Reich -- America's constitution looks greener / Horace Judson -- The federal system: instrument of liberty or inefficiency? -- States' rights: principle or pretext? -- Freedom and federalism / Nelson Rockefeller -- Federalism and freedom: a critique / Franz L. Neumann -- There is no state point of view / Edward W. Weidner -- Federalism and political culture: a view from the states / Daniel J. Elazier -- Federal aid to the states: help or hindrance? -- Local and private initiative in the great society / Norton E. Long -- The ghost of federalism and the dying states / Martin Landau -- Nation, state cities: partners or rivals? -- The states hold the keys to the cities / A. James Reichley -- Sources of the public unhappiness / Richard Goodwin -- Fair game / Walter Goodman -- Civil liberties: the Bill of Rights -- How free can we be without chaos? -- Free speech and free government / Alexander Meiklejohn -- The three-tiered response to civil liberties questions / Samuel Krislov -- Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Democracy and the student left / George F. Kennan -- A comparative study of civil strife / Ted Robert Gur -- The right to be left alone versus the need to organize society -- The first amendment has served us well / Robert F. Drinan -- The President's Crime Commission meets the press / Meet the Press -- Negroes and whites: the challenge of equal protection of the laws -- Desegregation, where do we gor from here? / Alexander M. Bickel -- The failure of black separatism / Bayard Rustin -- Public opinion and interest groups: who speaks for me? -- Public opinion: the voice of the people or manipulation by the public persuaders? -- The breaking, making and selling of a president / Joe McGinnis -- Bias in the media / Vice President Spiro Agnew -- Government by television / Nicholas Johnson -- Interest group politics: domination or balance of forces? -- A Washington correspondent looks at lobbying / James Deakin -- A political scientist looks at lobbying / lester W. Milbraith -- The case against interest group liberalism / Thedore J. Lowi -- A lobby of the people / John W. Gardner -- Political parties and political philosophies: the search for purpose and meaning -- Do American political parties mean anything? -- How to tell a Democrat from a Republican / Will Stanton -- The erosion of parties / Walter Dean Burnham -- Democrats or Republicans: what difference does it make? / Clinton Rossiter -- The new politics: new faces in old places -- The new politics/ George McGovern -- Politics: the old and the new / Adlai Stevenson III -- New politics: more mood than movement? / Jack Newfield -- Which way America - left, right, center? -- The conscience of a conservative / Barry Goldwater -- The conscience of a liberal / Eugene J. McCarthy -- Our right radical: the dispossessed / Daniel Bell -- The new left / Jack Newfield -- Voting behavior, nominations, and elections: government by the consent of the governed or the governing? -- Voting behavior: old, new, or slightly revised voting blocks -- The real majority / Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg -- Sexual politics / Kate Millet -- Hello, young voters / Alan L. Otten -- The national nominating convention: prefabricated pageantry or underrated political institution? -- Our national nominating conventions are a disgrace / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The hiring of presidents / Clinton Rossiter -- The Electoral College: anachronism or vital safeguard? -- The Electoral College should be abolished / the American Bar Association -- The Electoral College serves the purpose / Wallace S. Sayre and Judith H. Parris -- Elections: what does an election mean? -- Voting / Bernard R. Berelson, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and William N. McPhee -- Voters are not fools / Arthur Maass -- The presidency; the hardest job in the world? -- The presidency: transition or major transformation -- Powers of the presidency, a report / Harvey Wheeler / The twilight of the presidency / George E. Reedy / Leave your presidency alone / Clinton Rossiter -- Should or can the president control the federal bureaucracy -- Kennedy and the problem of presidential control / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The president is not in fact "chief administrator" / Peter Woll -- Congress: the new, old, or last frontier? -- Congress: alteration or adaptation? -- Congressional responses to the twentieth century / Samuel P. Huntington -- The prospects for change / David B. Truman -- Dissenting word on any change in Congress' set-up / James J.Kilpatrick -- making Congress work / Common Cause -- Power in Congress: views from the "Hill -- The congressional establishment / Joseph S. Clark -- Goodbye to the inner club / Nelson W. Polsby -- The Supreme Court: supreme in what? -- What manner of institution? -- Powerful, irresponsible, and human / Fred Rodell -- Where do the judges and the law come from? -- Choosing Supreme Court justices / Henry Steele Commager -- A child's garden of law and order / June L. Tapp -- On the limits of litigation -- Sidney E. Zion -- A political approach to the courts / Martin Shapiro -- The high court's role in policy -- What can the court do? -- Interview with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger -- Is the Supreme Court attempting too much? / Robert G. McCloskey -- The new activism under fire / Alpheus T. Mason -- United States foreign policy -- America and the world: which approach to foreign policy? -- Old myths and new realities / J. W. Fulbright -- A foreign policy for the 1970's / Richard M. Nixon -- The limits of American foreign policy / Walter Lippmann -- The United States and the communist bloc: permanent hostility or decreasing tensions? -- The United States must not negotiate with the Soviet Union / Slobodan M. Draskovich -- A fresh look at the communist bloc / J. W. Fulbright -- The Third World: an American responsibility? -- Beginning anew in Latin American / Edward M. Kennedy -- Does foreign aid really aid? / Bernard Nossiter -- Government and the economy: direction without domination? -- Overall direction: can government curb the business cycle? -- The "new economists" take over / Neil W. Chamberlain -- The end of the economist's dream / Robert Lekachman -- Big business and government: logical partners or natural enemies? -- Monopoly and inflation / Hobart Rowen -- The power of big business / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Big business, militarism, and democracy / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The politics of welfare: alleviation or elimination? -- American poverty: who and why? -- Poverty amid plenty / President's Commission -- Poverty on the land / John Stanley -- What role for government: alleviation or elimination? -- Welfare reform / Richard M. Nixon -- Government can't eliminate poverty / Edward C. Banfield -- The crisis in urban government: will cities remain habitable? -- Does a crisis exist? -- The American city in travail -- A second look at the urban crisis / Irving Kristol -- What are the major problems? -- The commuting motorist: urban enemy number one -- Urbanitis: the sick environment -- urbanitis: crime and violence -- What is the city's future? -- What can be done? / Edward C. Banfield -- Urban America in the year 2000 / Mitchell Gordon -- American civilization: the quest for a great society -- A great society: can political leaders point the way? -- Towards a sane society / Erich Fromm -- On the state of the arts / Agnes DeMille -- Students for a democratic society / the Port Huron Statement -- Domestic disillustionment: is utopia obsolete? -- The end of utopia / Grayson Kirk -- Lunch with three prospective bombers / Amitai Etzioni -- The malaise of the American spirit / Andrew Hacker -- What are the grounds for studied optimism? -- Can we preserve the American spirit? / James A. Michener