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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Why We Lost the ERA -- 2. A Very Brief History -- 3. Rights versus Substance -- 4. The Amendment Process -- 5. 59 Cents -- 6. The Court Catches Up -- 7. The ERA and the War Powers Clauses -- 8. A Decision by Accretion -- 9. Of Husbands and Toilets -- 10. Ideology and Activism -- 11. Reaction in the Legislature -- 12. Organizing in Illinois: A Case Study -- 13. A Movement or a Sect? -- 14. Requiescat in Pace -- Appendix: Support for the ERA, 1970-1982 -- Notes -- Index.

It is argued that the gender gap apparent during the US presidential election was primarily due to women's fear that Ronald Reagan was more likely to increase the risk of war than would his opponents, rather than Reagan's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as suggested by feminists, based on data from the CBS News/New York Times 1980 Election Day Survey. Exit-poll questionnaires in which voters (N = 15,201) indicated why they chose a particular candidate demonstrated that women were no more or less likely to vote for a candidate based on support for the ERA than were men, though women rated the issue as more important. The misinterpretation of the data is attributed to the expectations of & time constraints placed on the media, & the actions of feminists, particularly those in the National Organization for Women. 3 Tables, 25 References. W. Adams

The immodest purpose of this essay is to analyze the traditional arguments for political equality, and, with the help of a case study, to determine when these arguments apply and when they do not.

'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leading deliberative theorists, Deliberative Systems explains the principles of this new approach, which seeks ways of ensuring that a division of deliberative labour in a system nonetheless meets both deliberative and democratic norms. Rather than simply elaborating the theory, the contributors examine the problems of implementation in a real world of competing norms, competing institutions and competing powerful interests. This pioneering book will inspire an exciting new phase of deliberative research, both theoretical and empirical.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Negotiating Political Agreements -- Part 1: Stalemate in the United States -- Causes and Consequences of Polarization -- Making Deals in Congress -- Part 2: The Problem and the Solution -- Negotiation Myopia -- Deliberative Negotiation -- Part 3: Institutions and Rules of Collective Political Engagement -- Conditions for Successful Negotiation -- Negotiating Agreements in International Relations -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover