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Congress and the people : deliberative democracy on trial
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- Creator
- Donald R. Wolfensberger
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801867262, 0801867266
- OCLC
- ocm47103339
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.
- 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