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May 3: After Graduation: What’s Next in Today’s World for College Grads?
–a conversation with Fordham graduating seniors about their future
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On this show we talk to Fordham University International Studies majors Sali Salfiti and Lucas Reckhaus, and Art History majors Kseniya Ignatova and Elle Mellor about their college experience and what’s next as they get set to graduate later this month.
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April 19th: Nuclear Power and Our Energy Future
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In light of the tragedy in Fukushima, Japan, on this show Leslie Kass and Robert Alvarez discuss and debate the viability of nuclear power as a safe and efficient source of energy for our future.
Leslie Kass is the Senior Director for Business Policy and Programs at the Nuclear Energy Institute. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry and participates in both the national and global policy-making process. Its objective is to ensure the formation of policies that promote the beneficial uses of nuclear energy and technologies in the United States and around the world.
Robert Alvarez is a Senior Scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental, and energy policies. He served for five years as a Senior Investigator for the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs While at the Department of Energy from 1993 to 1999, he: coordinated the effort to enact nuclear worker compensation legislation; led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. Bob was awarded two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest awards given by the department.
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April 12: Budget Wars: The Politics and Economics of the Budget Battles in Washington
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Guests: David Gold and Christina Greer
On tonight’s show we discuss the economics and politics of just what is really going on in the often mind-numbing and mundane world of budget making.
David Gold is an economist and Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Prior to joining the New School faculty, he spent fifteen years in the United Nations Secretariat. He holds a PhD. in Economics from the City University of New York.
Christina Greer is an assistant professor of political science at Fordham University -Lincoln Center campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, quantitative methods, and public opinion. She is currently working on a book called, Shared Dreams, Different Visions: Black Ethnicity in America, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
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Tuesday, April 5: Military Intervention: Libya and Beyond
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Guests: Phyllis Bennis and Melissa Labonte
On this show we analyze and evaluate the current military intervention in Libya and ask: is military intervention in a nation ever justified, under what circumstances, and under whose auspices?
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. She works with US and global peace and occupation movements, and her books include Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer, and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.
Melissa Labonte is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. She has conducted research on agenda-setting and the politics of consensus building in the office of the United Nations 63rd General Assembly President, Fr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. Labonte’s publications include “Same Car, Different Driver? The Impact of Peacebuilding ‘Partnerships’ and the Chiefdom System in Sierra Leone,” and “Human Rights and Peacebuilding,” in the Encyclopedia of Human Rights published by Oxford University Press.
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Tuesday March 29th at 8PM:
The Other Nuclear Danger: Nuclear Weapons
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Guest: Aaron Tovish
Director, 2020 Vision Campaign
Mayors for Peace
With almost three decades of experience, Aaron Tovish is one of the world’s foremost disarmament activists. The Euro-American has worked for numerous non-governmental organizations. During 17 years with Parliamentarians for Global Action, he was responsible for its peace and security programs. He has consulted for Greenpeace, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Swedish Foriegn Policy Institute, NGO Committee for Disarmament in Geneva, and the Middle Powers Initiative. Aaron Tovish made significant contributions to a number of successful disarmament campaigns, including the Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament, the convening of the Partial Test Ban Treaty Amendment Conference in 1991, and the strengthening of the NPT review process in 1995. He has served as Director of the 2020 Vision Campaign of Mayors for Peace since 2004.
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Tuesday March 8th at 8PM:
Iran Today: A Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian
To Listen Now click here: Iran Today: A Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian
Revolution is sweeping the Middle East. With tenuous success so far in Tunisia and Egypt and a minute by minute struggle for power in Libya two almost contradictory questions help form the background for these events: will these revolutions go the way of Iran? Will these revolutions spread to Iran?
To understand these and other critical questions it’s probably more important than ever to understand Iran itself.
We hear a lot about Iran in American politics—but too often from political leaders who know little or nothing about the country. What is Iran like today? How has it become what it is? Where does its future lie?
To help us answer these questions, I’m delighted to have Ervand Abrahamian on our show tonight.
As an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, Ervand Abrahamian is well qualified by education and experience to study, analyze and tell us about Iranian, Middle Eastern, and world history. He is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has published Iran Between Two Revolutions, The Iranian Mojahedin, Khomeinism, Tortured Confessions, and Inventing the Axis of Evil. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has taught at Princeton, New York University, and Oxford University. He is currently working on two books: one is The CIA Coup in Iran; and another, A History of Modern Iran, for Cambridge University Press.
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March 1: India Today: A Conversation with Falguni Sen
To Listen Now click here: India Today-A Conversation with Falguni Sen, March 3, 2011
Guest: Falguni Sen, Professor, Fordham Graduate School of Business
Originally from Calcutta, India, Falguni Sen is Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Fordham University, where he directs the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center. He specializes in economic and business relations between the U.S. and India and China, with special expertise in the pharmaceutical industry. He also studies outsourcing, pubic trust in health-care, and managing innovations, and is an adviser on health care programs for the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a premier think tank in India, and a consultant for many other institutions.
In 1992 Falguni Sen was honored by Fordham with the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence. Before that he received funding for his studies from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. He holds a PhD. from Northwestern University, an MS from the University of Delhi and a BS from St. Stephen’s College (India). His writing have appeared in the Human Systems Management Journal, The Monitor, and IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management.
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February 22: What Does Egypt Mean for China?: A Conversation with Jerry Cohen
To Listen Now click here: Jerry Cohen Feb 25 2011-What Does Egypt Mean for China with Jerry Cohen
Guest: Jerry Cohen, China Law Expert and Human Rights Advocate
Jerome A. Cohen has been traveling to China for almost forty years and studying Chinese law for even longer. Since 1995 he has been adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1990, he has been a professor at the New York University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Chinese criminal justice and Chinese business law. He has also been a member of the board of editors of both the China Quarterly and the American Journal of International Law. He continues to serve on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch – Asia and is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Mr. Cohen has published several books, including The Criminal Process in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–63, People’s China and International Law, and Contract Laws of the People’s Republic of China, and many articles on Chinese law. He formerly served as Jeremiah J. Smith professor, director of East Asian legal studies, and associate dean at Harvard Law School. He joined the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in 1981 and retired from commercial law practice in 2000.
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February 15th: The Obama Budget and the American Economy
Guest: David Gold, Economist
To Listen Now click here: The Obama Budget and the Economy with David Gold, February 15, 2011.
David Gold is an economist and Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Prior to joining the New School faculty, he spent fifteen years in the United Nations Secretariat. He holds a PhD. in Economics from the City University of New York.
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February 8th: Glenn Beck’s Demonization of Frances Fox Piven
To Listen Now click here: Interview with Frances Fox Piven, Feb. 8, 2011.
Guest: Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She is an expert in social welfare policy, American electoral politics, and social movements. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Sociological Association’s Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, and was herself president of the American Sociological Society. Her writings include: Poor People’s Movements (1977), Why Americans Don’t Vote (1989), Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (updated edition, 1993), The War at Home: The Domestic Causes and Consequences of Bush’s Militarism (2004), and Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006).
President Bill Clinton gave Piven one of the pens he used to sign into law the National Registration Act of 1993 (the “Motor Voter Law”)—to help rather than hinder the average American as she or he tries to register to vote–in recognition of the central role she played in conceiving that law and lobbying for its passage.
On a personal note, Piven’s work on the causes of consequences of the high rates of nonvoting we have in America helped inspire my own thinking and writing on political apathy.
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February 1st:
Revolution in the Middle East
To Listen Now click here: Feb 1, 2011-Revolution in the Middle East with John Entelis
Guest: John Entelis
We discuss with John Entelis the revolution the Middle East is now experiencing, from Tunisia to Egypt, its causes and outcomes, and its potential impact on U.S. foreign policy.
John P. Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University (Bronx, New York).
He has been widely interviewed about the current Middle East crisis and revolution by major U.S. and foreign media outlets.
He received his B.A. degree in political science from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964, an M.A. from New York University in 1967, and a Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 1970.
Professor Entelis has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad and is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications on the comparative and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of North African Studies and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Maghrib Studies.
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December 21:
No Labels: A New Political Movement for Bipartisan Politics
*To hear this show at any time click here– then in the box marked TALKING click show on the show and then click the play button above “Host.”
Guests: John Avlon and Lisa Borders
No Labels is a new political movement that claims: “We are Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are united in the belief that we do not have to give up our labels, merely put them aside to do what’s best for America.”
We will discuss with No Labels founders John Avlon and Lisa Borders just what it means to “do what’s best for America” and whether labels are just labels–like rooting for a sports team– or whether they indicate a philosophical point of view that we subscribe to for important reasons.
John Avlon is a CNN contributor and the senior political columnist for The Daily Beast. He is the author of “Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics” and “Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America.”
Lisa Borders is President of the Grady Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Grady Health System, the only Level I Trauma Center within 100 miles of metro-Atlanta. She is leading the Greater Grady capital campaign – a 5 year, $325M effort – and guiding the system’s fund-raising efforts during the most important period of Grady’s history. Formerly, Lisa Borders served as President of the Atlanta City Council – elected citywide in a special election – from August 2004 – January, 2010. She also served as Co-Chair of the Transition Team for Atlanta Mayor M. Kasim Reed.
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December 14:
Islamic Politics and the Politics of Islam
*To hear this show at any time click here– then in the box marked TALKING click show on the show and then click the play button above “Host.”
Guest: John Entelis
We will discuss with John Entelis Islamic politics– the mass based social movements for which Islam is a rallying point. We will also discuss the politics of Islam: how regimes in North Africa and the Middle East co-opt the Islamic idiom.
John P. Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University (Bronx, New York).
He received his B.A. degree in political science from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964, an M.A. from New York University in 1967, and a Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 1970. He has been awarded several Fulbright awards and has also directed three National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes and seminars.
Professor Entelis has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad to university, government, business, and community groups under the sponsorship of private, academic, and governmental institutions. Dr. Entelis is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications on the comparative and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa including The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (1980,1986,1995, 2002, 2006, 2011), and has also published analytic pieces in The New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique, among others. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of North African Studies and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Maghrib Studies.
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December 7th: Inequality and What We Can Do About It
*To hear this show at any time click here– then in the box marked TALKING click show on the show and then click the play button above “Host.”
Guest: Jacob S. Hacker. He is co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class.
Jacob Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Besides Winner-Take-All Politics, he is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (a New York Times Editors’ Choice), The Divided Welfare State, and, co-author of, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. A frequent media commentator who often testifies before Congress, he has appeared recently on Charlie Rose, the PBS NewsHour, MSNBC, CNN, All Things Considered, the Diane Rehm Show, and Marketplace.
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November 30th: China Today
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Guests: Yawei Liu, Stanley Lubman
Dr. Yawei Liu has been Director of the China Program of the Carter Center since 2005. He has also been a member of numerous Carter Center election observation missions to China and Latin America. A native of China, he received his bachelor’s degree in history at the Xian Foreign Languages Institute in Shaanxi, China, a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii in recent U.S. history, and a doctorate in U.S. diplomatic history from Emory University.
He has written numerous articles on China’s political developments and grassroots democracy and is the founding editor of the China Elections and Governance Web site. In 2008 he co-authored in Chinese a book that was quite popular in China: Obama: The Man that Will Change America.
Stanley Lubman holds a doctorate in law from the Columbia law School and is now Distinguished Resident Lecturer (ret.) and Senior Fellow at the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the Berkeley Law School of the University of California.
Professor Lubman has specialized on China as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer for over forty-five years. He has taught courses on Chinese law at the Berkeley Law School and at Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale, and in several European universities. From 1978 to 1997 he headed the China practice at major law firms in San Francisco and England, advising foreign clients in China on a full-time basis while continuing his academic activities.
Professor Lubman has also been advisor to The Asia Foundation on legal reform projects in China and his writings on Chinese law have been widely published, including an edited volume China’s Legal Reforms. He currently writes a blog on Chinese law for the Wall Street Journal. (
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/tag/stanley-lubman/
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November 30th: It’s Your Turn.
*To hear this show at any time click here: Your Views on the Mid-Term Elections of 2010
Listener Call-In Show to talk about why the midterm elections went the way they did and what the results means for the future of American politics, and for our future as a nation.
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November 16: The Tea Party Movement
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On this show New York Times reporter Kate Zernike and writer William Hogeland assess the meaning and influence of the Tea Party Movement on the elections and on the future of American politics.
For Kate Zernike’s reporting on the Tea Party go to:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/z/kate_zernike/index.html
For William Hogeland’s take on the Tea Party go to:
http://bostonreview.net
/BR35.5/hogeland.php
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Tuesday, November 9th: No Show
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Tuesday, November 2nd: The Obama Presidency–What Went Wrong?
*To hear this show at any time click here: The Obama Presidency So Far with John Judis
On this show political writer John Judis tells us just where he thinks the Obama presidency went wrong on politics and policy and what needs to change. Economist David Gold talks about why the Obama administration pursued the economic policies it has during the recent crisis and what, if anything, Obama might have done differently.
John B. Judis is an author and journalist. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor to The American Prospect.
David Gold is an economist and Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Prior to joining the New School faculty, he spent fifteen years in the United Nations Secretariat. He holds a Ph D in Economics from the City University of New York.
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Tuesday, October 19th and 26th: The Midterm Elections: What Will Happen? What Will It Mean?
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Fordham Professor of Political Science Costas Panagopoulos and Democratic strategist Dylan Loewe analyze the prospects for the Democratic and Republican parties in the upcoming midterm elections.
Can the Democrats retain control of Congress on November 1st? Or will the Republicans sweep into congressional power? Who is responsible for the Republican “surge” that most analysts are predicting? Has the Obama administration made serious mistakes in policy or politics? And what will these elections mean for the future as we move quickly from them into the presidential sweepstakes in 2012? These are some of the questions Tom De Luca poses to these experts.
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Tuesday, October 12th: The Coffee Party Movement with its founder Annabel Park
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Look out Tea Party–there’s a new party in town.
Annabel Park founded the The Coffee Party to show that the Tea Party does not represent America. She got it going by starting a Facebook page and by posting this video on Youtube. The Coffee Party just had its first annual Convention in Louisville Kentucky. We’ll talk with Annabel about why she started the movement, what it is working on, and where it–and America–go from here
Annabel Park was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to to the U.S. with her family when she was nine. She grew up in Texas and Maryland. She studied philosophy at Boston University on a Melville Scholarship and political theory at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.
In 2007, she was the national coordinator for the 121 Coalition, organizing a historic grassroots effort to successfully pass U.S. House Resolution 121, also known as the “comfort women” resolution. In addition to organizing the Coffee Party, she is a filmmaker. Her 2010 film 9500 Liberty on conflict over immigration in Virginia won three film festival awards.
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October 5th: Education and the Economy
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We talk to economists Simon Head and Steve Hertzberg about the future of the American economy and about whether education can play the role assigned to it–of providing the opportunity for advancement for all.
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September 28th: Money and Democracy
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Can we have a democracy if wealth is allowed to dominate political voice? This is the question we discussed with Professor Samuel Issacharoff of New York University’s School of Law. We talked to him about the influence of money on politics today, how the Supreme Court has abetted that influence, especially in the recent Citizens United Supreme Court case.
Then we discussed what can be done to make our elections more democratic. We spoke to Nick Nyhart, President of Public Finance about the The Fair Elections Now Act and what you can do to help that bill become law.
We end the show with a surprise Constitutional Amendment proposed by your host.
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September 21st: National Security Policy after 9/11
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Bill Hartung discusses with us the wisdom of America’s national security policy, from Afghanistan to Iraq, in the post-9/11 environment and with the rise of China as a major power. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and an expert on issues of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy.
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September 14th: Political Change We Can Count On
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In this show we discuss with award-winning author Alexander Keyssar, Minnesota representative Laura Brod, and “Why Tuesday?” rep Barnett Zitron on how we can take back American democracy for average Americans by empowering us to count on ourselves.
Alexander Keyssar is the award-winning author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, and Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Because of recent political despair, we thought we’d kick-off our first show by remembering that self-empowerment has always had forward movement and backsliding, wins and losses—and then wins again—if we work for them. Our current political situation is no exception. We’ll discuss with Keyssar how we got to where we are and what we now need to do.
We also talk to bipartisan representatives of two different movements for change in American elections that are having some success. We talk with Rep. Laura Brod (R), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives about the effort to put the Electoral College out of business. For more information click on National Popular Vote. We also talk to Barnett Zitron about the bill in Congress to move Election Day to the weekend. For more information on weekend voting click on Why Tuesday?
Change we can count on
The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
–Ready to work for political change you can count on?
We can break the cycle of bias that keeps us from pursuing a more perfect union.
By Tom De Luca
posted July 27, 2010 at 2:15 pm EDT
New York —
Two years ago, Barack Obama electrified the nation with a promise of “change we can believe in.” That was the wrong pledge.
Americans need far more than change we can believe in. We need change we can count on.
And the only kind of change we can really count on is change that empowers us to count on ourselves. Yet a program for that kind of change is nowhere to be found on the American political agenda.
The best hope average citizens have to fight for their interests and beliefs is to take back the institutions of representative government. Our most important problem isn’t the size of government – it is how to achieve governance that’s far more democratic.
A cycle of bias
But a cycle of bias is preventing us from doing just that. This cycle has three parts.
The first consists of the rules of the political game, beginning with the domineering role personal and corporate wealth play in politics. But the problem goes far deeper than money.
Sedimented institutions worsen the bias by lessening choice, interest, and participation. These include: a two-party duopoly that freezes out other voices; voting on a workday; “gerrymandered” districts that unfairly protect incumbents; an Electoral College that limits campaigns to “battleground” states; and laboriously registering voters one at a time.
Then there is the revolving door from Congress to lobbying firms, further ensuring that policy will suit special interests, leaving out the rest of us.
The second part of the cycle of bias is the way political parties selectively mobilize voters. Politicians use their resources to organize those who have voted before, our already most organized citizens, casting the least organized and protected among us back into the political wilderness.
Finally, the agenda of policy proposals set by political, business, and media elites neglects many citizens, especially – but not only – the poor.
Even in historic 2008, 40 percent of eligible Americans didn’t vote, while citizens in the bottom fifth ranked by income voted at only 60 percent the rate of those in the top fifth. Many opt out not because they don’t care, but because a biased political agenda doesn’t meet their needs.
Is this just par for democracy? No. Other advanced nations don’t have such low turnouts and large class voting gaps. Nor did America in the second half of the 19th century when turnout often hit 80 percent and the poor were as likely to vote as the rich.
Eight steps for change
What can we do to end this cycle? Here are eight action items:
•Take private wealth out of politics. Amend the Constitution to overturn our activist Supreme Court’s fantasy that unlimited campaign spending is free speech. This would free Congress to write effective campaign finance reform in which one person – not each and every dollar – gets one protected voice.
•Vote on “Democracy Days,” not Tuesdays. We should vote on weekends or make Election Day a national holiday. We wouldn’t advise a new democracy to vote on workdays. Why do we do it here?
•Automatically register all voters. The government knows how to find us for war or taxes. It should use this prowess to register us to vote, as governments do in most other advanced nations.
•End gerrymandering. Nonpartisan commissions should be established to draw legislative district lines to maximize competition and fairness. Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.
•Establish proportional representation. Our system of winner-take-all elections awards all legislative seats only to parties already able to win pluralities in geographic districts. Proportional representation gives all parties a fair share of seats based on the percentage of the vote each gets. This would boost voter choice and break the two-party duopoly.
•Directly elect the president. Five states have already signed a compact to give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. If states adding up to a majority of electors sign on, the Electoral College will become history.
•End the revolving door between Congress and K Street. Members of Congress should be constitutionally barred for life from working as paid lobbyists. If politicians want to “serve the people,” that’s a price they’ll pay.
•Pass the democracy amendment. Believe it or not, the word “democracy” never appears in the Constitution. Let’s put it there to create a clear constitutional standard for future legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
Some may find this agenda too procedural, even a bit dull. That group won’t include political elites desperate to keep their power. To them it will be a radical, direct threat.
With so little to lose and so much to gain, let’s create a new national movement to revitalize American democracy. The agenda for change is there. It only awaits a “Continental Army” of new winter patriots, willing to sacrifice just a little to defend American democracy so much.
Tom De Luca is professor of political science at Fordham University. He is a coauthor of “Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers! Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics” and “The Democratic Debate: American Politics in an Age of Change.” He’s also the radio host of The Democracy Hour with Tom De Luca at www.talkingalternative.com.