Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
1 Challenges to Democracy
Manifesto
2 The Rise and Fall of Democracy
Machine Democracy in Chicago
The American Republic
Representative Democracy
Lessons from the Past
3 Income and Racial Inequality
Inequality Today
Economic and Racial Inequality in Chicago
Political Consequences
Times of Crisis
Overcoming Inequality
4 Money in Politics
Regulating Money in Politics
Cost of Elections
Translating Campaign Giving into Government Influence
Public Opinion
Public Financing and Lobbying Restrictions
Limiting the Effect of Money in Politics
5 Nonparticipation
Control by Political Parties in Chicago
City Government
The 2019 Chicago Mayoral Election
Representative Democracy
Mass and Social Media
Citizenship Today
Voter Participation and the Turnout Gap
What Is to Be Done?
6 Polarization and the Politics of Resentment
Divisions in Chicago
National Polarization
Resentment
Polarization in Elected Officials
Dissatisfaction with Democracy
Polarization in Chicago
The 1977 Mayoral Succession
The 1983 Election
The 1987 Mayoral Succession
The 2019 and 2020 Elections
United We Stand
7 Corruption
Level of Corruption
An Egregious Case
History of Corruption in Chicago and Illinois
Corruption in the United States
Institutional Corruption
Curing Corruption
8 Structural Problems
Broader Structural Problems
The Electoral College
Gerrymandering
Term Limits
Voter Suppression and Automatic Voter Registration
Electoral Integrity and Electronic Voting
Voting Systems
An Undemocratic Congress
Structural Barriers to Democracy in Chicago
Election Dates
Sham Candidates
Judicial Elections
The Need for Reform.

9 Cascading Crises
Black Lives Matter
Chicago's Torture Machine
Structural Racism
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Economic Recession
The 2020 Presidential Election
Insurrection and Attempted Coup
The Effect of Crisis
10 Deliberative Democracy
Neighborhood Government in Chicago
Forty-Fourth Ward Government
Participatory Budgeting
Transition Team
Issue Voting and Governing
New England Town Meeting
Jefferson's Ward System
Making Congress Deliberative
Legislative Juries
Other Alternatives
Our Divisions
Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot
The Move to Deliberative Democracy
11 Spirit of Democracy
Chicago's Rebirth
A Democratic Movement for Change
Solutions
Civic Virtue
Teaching Civic Engagement
Democracies Do Die
Political Action
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.