National Civic Review articles from March 1998

National Civic Review archives from March 1998

A new progressive era. (new US economic and moral order)
March 22, 1998... The current confusion in American political life arises from possibilities and insecurities created by a new economic and moral order. This uncertainty is not entirely novel. Our times bear a striking similarity to the period between the Civil...

The challenge of money in a new vision for American democracy. (US campaign finance system)
March 22, 1998... Money alters and distorts American democracy. The ability to raise money is often the decisive factor in whether someone runs for public office. Although it does not determine the outcome of every election, money makes some candidates hopeless...

Can technology save democracy?
March 22, 1998... Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it...

Political reform comes from communities. (small communities' enactment of political reforms to control campaign funding)
March 22, 1998... Crested Butte is a picturesque town of nine hundred residents, nestled in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Known for its outstanding skiing and its quiet, laid-back lifestyle, few would suspect Crested Butte of being at the forefront of a national,...

Public opinion polling and the future of democracy.
March 22, 1998... During the last thirty years, the use of public opinion polling in American politics has exploded. Practically every day, there is a press briefing in Washington on a new poll. In nearly every contested federal campaign, the candidates spend...

Overcoming cynicism: youth participation and electoral politics.
March 22, 1998... Seven out of ten young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four did not vote in the 1996 presidential elections. A 1997 UCLA survey of college freshmen nationwide finds their interest in politics at a thirty-year low. Yet across the...

Elections and civic education: the case of Kids Voting USA. (program which teaches children the importance of voting)
March 22, 1998... Elections should bring focus, not closure, to a democratic polity This elemental proposition is sometimes lost in modern commentary about elections being horse races and political campaigns seeming to rest more on images than issues. Elections...

Full representation: the future of proportional election systems. (proportional representation)
March 22, 1998... President Bill Clinton began his second term in 1997 with an optimistic inaugural address urging Americans to keep our old democracy "forever young." Predicting that one of our greatest challenges in the future would be "the divide of race," he...

Cities Without Suburbs.
March 22, 1998... In the mid-1970s, more than forty federal programs were operating to promote regional coordination and planning. But during the Carter administration, and on through the Reagan and Bush years, interest in metropolitan regionalism waned as the...

Metropolitics.
March 22, 1998... In the mid-1970s, more than forty federal programs were operating to promote regional coordination and planning. But during the Carter administration, and on through the Reagan and Bush years, interest in metropolitan regionalism waned as the...

Regional Politics.
March 22, 1998... In the mid-1970s, more than forty federal programs were operating to promote regional coordination and planning. But during the Carter administration, and on through the Reagan and Bush years, interest in metropolitan regionalism waned as the...

Regional Excellence.
March 22, 1998... In the mid-1970s, more than forty federal programs were operating to promote regional coordination and planning. But during the Carter administration, and on through the Reagan and Bush years, interest in metropolitan regionalism waned as the...

New Visions for Metropolitan America.
March 22, 1998... In the mid-1970s, more than forty federal programs were operating to promote regional coordination and planning. But during the Carter administration, and on through the Reagan and Bush years, interest in metropolitan regionalism waned as the...