{"product_id":"citizens-uniting-to-restore-our-democracy-9780806166292","title":"Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Kemmis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked the American political system, and the aftershocks have widened the nation's partisan divide and magnified deep tensions in the public sphere. At a time when our political focus so often shrinks to the immediacy of the latest jolt, this book puts these alarming events in a much broader--and more manageable--context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even as we become more polarized along partisan and ideological lines, author Daniel Kemmis reminds us that authentic conservatism and progressivism are both deeply rooted in genuine human concerns and in the shared history of our democratic republic. \u003ci\u003eCitizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a cogent analysis of what ails our body politic and a wide-ranging, deeply informed prescription for healing our wounded democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in \u003ci\u003eCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u003c\/i\u003e amplified the role of big money in American politics. But, as Kemmis notes, the threats to our democracy long preceded \u003ci\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/i\u003e. While the influence of big money and relentless partisanship can make ordinary citizens feel powerless in a chaotic political culture, \u003ci\u003eCitizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a stirring reassertion of the power Americans possess as collaborative problem-solvers--namely, the very homegrown self-governing skills needed to rebuild our democracy. Drawing on several decades of public service--as a politician, activist, and scholar, one of \u003ci\u003eUtne Reader's \u003c\/i\u003e\"100 Visionaries Changing the World\"--Kemmis highlights the transformative potential latent in the everyday practice of engaged citizenship. Leveraged by new mechanisms, such as an effective democratic lobby of the kind his book advocates, that reservoir of active, hands-on citizenship must be mobilized into a twenty-first-century version of the Progressive movement, providing both necessary and sufficient conditions for the renewal of the nation's democratic institutions. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46418681626775,"sku":"9780806166292","price":2379.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780806166292.webp?v=1769071724","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/citizens-uniting-to-restore-our-democracy-9780806166292","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}