Robert Elias





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American Democracy Debated

CONTENTS

Is the United States Really A Democracy?
1. Resolved That: The U.S. is Undemocratic
2. Resolved That: The Constitution Should Be Abandoned
3. Resolved That: Federalism Should be Abolished
4. Resolved That: Civil Liberties Are Inadequate

What Are American Politics Really Like?
5. Resolved That: Mass Media & Government Control Public Opinion
6. Resolved That: Interest Groups Undermine Democracy
7. Resolved That: The Two-Party System is Flawed
8. Resolved That: Voting Is A Futile Exercise

Are Policy Makers Really Effective?
9. Resolved That: The Presidency Is Too Powerful
10. Resolved That: Bureaucracy Subverts Democracy
11. Resolved That: Congress is Archaic
12. Resolved That: The Judicial System is Undemocratic


Selected Works

Author Events
Book Readings
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances
Mystery Fiction
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church
Non-Fiction
Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests.
Rethinking Peace
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era.
The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victomology & Human Rights
American criminal justice from a victim perspective.
The Peace Resource Book
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature
The Utopian Impulse
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century
American Democracy Debated
Introduction to American government instructor's manual
Non-Fiction Journal
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development
Other Writings
"Field of Dreams"
Writing my debut mystery novel
Academic Essays
Listing of academic essays and articles
Baseball Essays
Short works on baseball
Recommended
Good Books
Fiction and non-fiction books I recommend
Short Story
"The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky"
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary
Works in Progress
Books in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball

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