Democracy's Rebirth : The View from Chicago.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Challenges to Democracy -- Manifesto -- 2 The Rise and Fall of Democracy -- Machine Democracy in Chicago -- The American Republic -- Representative Democracy -- Lessons from the Past -- 3 Income and Racial Inequality -- Inequality Today -- Economic and Racial Inequality in Chicago -- Political Consequences -- Times of Crisis -- Overcoming Inequality -- 4 Money in Politics -- Regulating Money in Politics -- Cost of Elections -- Translating Campaign Giving into Government Influence -- Public Opinion -- Public Financing and Lobbying Restrictions -- Limiting the Effect of Money in Politics -- 5 Nonparticipation -- Control by Political Parties in Chicago -- City Government -- The 2019 Chicago Mayoral Election -- Representative Democracy -- Mass and Social Media -- Citizenship Today -- Voter Participation and the Turnout Gap -- What Is to Be Done? -- 6 Polarization and the Politics of Resentment -- Divisions in Chicago -- National Polarization -- Resentment -- Polarization in Elected Officials -- Dissatisfaction with Democracy -- Polarization in Chicago -- The 1977 Mayoral Succession -- The 1983 Election -- The 1987 Mayoral Succession -- The 2019 and 2020 Elections -- United We Stand -- 7 Corruption -- Level of Corruption -- An Egregious Case -- History of Corruption in Chicago and Illinois -- Corruption in the United States -- Institutional Corruption -- Curing Corruption -- 8 Structural Problems -- Broader Structural Problems -- The Electoral College -- Gerrymandering -- Term Limits -- Voter Suppression and Automatic Voter Registration -- Electoral Integrity and Electronic Voting -- Voting Systems -- An Undemocratic Congress -- Structural Barriers to Democracy in Chicago -- Election Dates -- Sham Candidates -- Judicial Elections -- The Need for Reform.

9 Cascading Crises -- Black Lives Matter -- Chicago's Torture Machine -- Structural Racism -- The COVID-19 Pandemic -- Economic Recession -- The 2020 Presidential Election -- Insurrection and Attempted Coup -- The Effect of Crisis -- 10 Deliberative Democracy -- Neighborhood Government in Chicago -- Forty-Fourth Ward Government -- Participatory Budgeting -- Transition Team -- Issue Voting and Governing -- New England Town Meeting -- Jefferson's Ward System -- Making Congress Deliberative -- Legislative Juries -- Other Alternatives -- Our Divisions -- Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot -- The Move to Deliberative Democracy -- 11 Spirit of Democracy -- Chicago's Rebirth -- A Democratic Movement for Change -- Solutions -- Civic Virtue -- Teaching Civic Engagement -- Democracies Do Die -- Political Action -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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