Direct Deliberative Democracy - How Citizens Can Rule Crittenden JackPaperback softback
Direct Deliberative Democracy - How Citizens Can Rule Crittenden JackPaperback softback As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests, positive change seems…
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Direct Deliberative Democracy - How Citizens Can Rule Crittenden JackPaperback softback
As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests, positive change seems permanently stymied. How can we take back our democracy from the grip of oligarchy and bring power to the people?In Direct Deliberative Democracy, Jack Crittenden and Debra Campbell offer up a better way for government to reflect citizens' interests. Left out in the cold by the political process, citizens are frustrated and despairing.
With money, lobbyists, and It begins with a startlingly basic question: "Why don't we the people govern?" In this provocative book, the authors mount a powerful case that the time has come for more direct democracy in the United States, showing that the circumstances that made the Constitutional framers' arguments so convincing more than two hundred years ago have changed dramatically-and that our democracy needs to change with them.