Ten thousand democracies politics and public opinion in America's school districts
The essence of democracy is popular sovereignty. The people rule. In the United States, citizens exercise this right through elected officials who they believe will best represent their own values and interests. But are those interests and values always being followed? Authors Michael B. Berkman and...
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | American governance and public policy.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : policy responsiveness and American democracy
- Democratic control of American school boards
- Financing public education
- Public opinion and Americans' commitment to educational spending
- Direct democracy, indirect democracy, and policy responsiveness
- Voting rights, electoral systems, and policy responsiveness
- Teacher's unions in state and local politics
- The gray peril reconsidered
- The democratic control of American school boards.
