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10 Steps to Repair American Democracy

An Owner's Manual to Concerned Citizens by Steven Hill
May 30, 2006

Drawing upon the author’s 20 years of scholarship, advocacy, and two previous books, and including a trenchant foreword by The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy is a "onestop" shopping guide to what's broken about our democracy, and what Americans can do to repair it.

In his inspiring blueprint for renewing America, Hill makes a stirring call for national election standards, voting equipment overhaul, nonpartisan election officials, a voting day holiday, and other repairs. He takes it a step further, calling for the end of winner-take-all elections, direct election of the president, an overhaul of the U.S. Senate, universal voter registration, public financing of elections, instant runoff voting, term limits for Supreme Court justices, free air time for candidates, and new media regulations that will open up our politics and broaden political debate.

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