De Anza College Key Structural Challenges in The American Democracy Article Review
- ESSAY: Using 3 or more articles and/or videos from assigned class material, as well as your actual experiences registering voters and interviewing non-voters, write an essay (500-700 words) explaining the key structural challenges in American Democracy (80 points)
- List the three articles/videos you incorporated into your essay:
- Article/video #1: Title, Author:
- Article/video #2: Title, Author:
- Article/video #3: Title, Author:
- PASTE IN YOUR ESSAY BELOW:
- (# of words used in your essay below: ______)
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- “How the Money Primary Is Undermining Voting Rights,” Ari Berman, The Nation (June 8, 2015) https://www.thenation.com/article/how-money-primar…
- “Blocking the Vote,” Ashley Lopez, Ms. Magazine (Winter 2012) https://msmagazine.com/2012/02/27/blocking-the-vot…
- “The Secret Lists that Swiped the Senate,” Greg Palast, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 (GregPalast.com) https://www.gregpalast.com/the-secret-lists-that-s…
- Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), (Published on Feb 14, 2016)
- “Everything mattered: lessons from 2016’s bizarre presidential election. WTF just happened?,” David Roberts, Vox.com (Nov 30, 2016) https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/30…
- “The Election Reform Moment,” John Nichols, The Nation (Feb. 18, 2013) https://www.thenation.com/article/election-reform-…
- “The End of the Solid South,” Bob Moser, The American Prospect (May/June, 2013) https://prospect.org/article/end-solid-south
- “It’s Time to Diversify the Democratic Party Leadership,” by Steve Phillips, The Nation (November 18, 2016) https://www.thenation.com/article/its-time-to-dive…
- “Fear of Diversity Made People More Likely to Vote Trump: The 2016 election was really a battle about having an open society,” Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel, The Nation (March 14, 2017) https://www.thenation.com/article/fear-of-diversit…
- “The System IS Rigged!—The Electoral College and the 2016 Election by Bob Wing, Bill Fletcher Jr., Common Dreams (November 30, 2016) https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-system-is…
- “This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering,” by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post (January 13, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/0…
- “The United States Senate is a failed institution: It’s a malapportioned, anti-democratic embarrassment,” Ian Millhiser, Think Progress website (April 6, 2017) https://thinkprogress.org/antidemocratic-history-o…
- “Kabuki Democracy: And How to Fix It- Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible, For Now,” Eric Alterman, The Nation (1/5/2011)