Stephen M. Maurer

We Hold These Truths (eBook, ePUB)

Updating the Framers' Vision of American Democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108997492
• Artikelnr.: 70909643

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Maurer is Adjunct Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Trained as a lawyer, he has been associated with Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy since 1999. His books include WMD Terrorism (2009), On the Shoulders of Giants (CUP 2017), and Self-Governance in Science (CUP 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Updating the framers
2. The people: from individuals to communities
3. Selling policy: political narratives & ideologies
4. The public forum: mass media and the web
5. Mass democracy: political parties and elections
6. The 'extended republic': communities, states & regions
7. Making law: the congress
8. Implementing law: the executive
9. Interpreting law: the courts
10. Democracy evolving: the future of American politics.