The New Populist Reader

List of contents

Introduction
Contemporary Economic Populism
Questioning Free Trade: Potential Implications of GATT
Supply and Demand Skewed: The Market Dynamic Misrepresented
The 1996 Telecommunications Bill: What Forces Shaped the Law
Legal Reform, Small Business, and the ADA
Opening Up the Fed: Democratization of National Economic Policy--Economic Elites versus the Public Right to Know
Corporate Welfare
Health Care
A Concluding Speech from a True Believer
Postscript
Contemporary Cultural Populism
The Mass Media, Sex, and Violence
The University Elite and Political Correctness: The Proposed University of Massachusetts Speech Code
The Growth of Legalized Gambling: Unkept Promises at Whose Cost
Professional Football, Loyalty, and the Power of the Average Fan
Protecting Community from the Power of Unrestrained Economic Freedom
Reconceptualizing Work for the Twenty-first Century
A Concluding Speech from a True Believer
Postscript
Contemporary Governmental Populism
How Money Corrupts Democracy: The Need for Campaign Finance Reform
Power to the People: Instigating Congressional Term Limits from the States
Opening Up the Two-Party System: Reforming Ballot Access Laws and the Presidential Debates
Empowering Jurists: Democratizing the Judicial System
Welfare Reform: The Importance of Responsible Work and States' Rights
Environmental Protection and Religion
A Concluding Speech from a True Believer
Postscript
Selected Bibliography

About the author

KARL G. TRAUTMAN is Instructor of Political Science at Lansing Community College and Washtenaw Community College. He received a Ph.D in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1992. He has been a candidate for state representative in New Hampshire, a research assistant for Meet the Press, and has taught political science in Massachusetts, Hawaii, Kansas, Connecticut and Michigan.

Product details

• Authors: Karl G. Trautman, Trautman Karl G.
• Assisted by: Karl G. Trautman (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1997
• EAN: 9780275960230
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96023-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Opinion Polling, Politics, Law, and Government