The Challenge of Democracy

Janda, Kenneth; Goldman, Jerry; Berry, Jeffrey M.

ISBN 10: 0395833930 / ISBN 13: 9780395833933

Published by Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Challenge of Democracy
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395833930
• ISBN 13: 9780395833933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

"This Brief Edition retains the popular themes of the full-length the conflict among the values of freedom, order, and equality, and the tensions between pluralist and majoritarian visions of democracy. ... New to the fourth coverage of key recent events, including the 2000 elections, the impeachment and acquittal of President Clinton, the 1998 congressional elections, the political implications of new media, including the Internet"--P. [4] of cover.

About the Author

Kenneth Janda (Ph.D., Indiana, 1961) is the Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University. He has published extensively in the areas of political science, research methodology, and the use of computer technology in political science. In 2000 he won the Samuel Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2009 he received the APSA's Frank J. Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the profession and the Association.

Jeffrey M. Berry (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1974) is the John Richard Skuse Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His books include THE OUTRAGE INDUSTRY (2014), THE NEW LIBERALISM (1999), and THE REBIRTH OF URBAN DEMOCRACY (1993). He is twice the recipient of the Leon Epstein Award, first for his book A VOICE FOR NONPROFITS (2003) and more recently for LOBBYING AND POLICY CHANGE (2009). He is also the recipient of the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association.

Jerry Goldman (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1974) is professor emeritus of political science at Northwestern University and research professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. His research interests are judicial politics, constitutional law, and information technology and politics. He is the founder and director of Oyez, a multimedia judicial archive at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has received many awards, including the American Bar Foundation's Silver Gavel for increasing the public's understanding of law, the Roman and Littlefield Prize for Teaching Innovation, and the first APSA CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation.