The Future of American Democracy Foundation is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan

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foundation dedicated to research and education, working in partnership with the

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to clarify and analyze contemporary US domestic and

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. Board members include distinguished scholars and experts with various political affiliations and beliefs. Board members include Jonathan Brent, Editorial Director of Yale University Press;

Norton Garfinkle Norton Garfinkle (born February 26, 1931) is an economist, businessman and public servant. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He tau ...

, former Chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies;

Thomas E. Mann Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution,

of the

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; Norman J. Ornstein, Emeritus scholar at the

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; Hugh Price, formerly president of the

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;

Alan Wolfe Alan Wolfe (born 1942) is an American political scientist and a sociologist on the faculty of Boston College who serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Fu ...

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classified ...

; and Ruth A. Wooden.

Publications: The Future of American Democracy Series

The Future of American democracy Foundation has published a series of books to "present a new, balanced,

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approach to examining the challenges American democracy has faced". Published works include: *

, ''The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy'' * Norton Garfinkle & Daniel Yankelovich, Editors, ''Uniting America: Restoring the Vital Center to American Democracy'' *

Reed Hundt Reed Eric Hundt (born March 3, 1948) is an American attorney who served as chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission from November 29, 1993 to November 3, 1997. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, he served for most of C ...

, ''In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship'' *

, ''Does American Democracy Still Work?'' * Daniel Yankelovich, ''Profit with Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism''

Published articles

In addition to books, articles by numerous Future of American Democracy Foundation members have appeared in leading publications, including the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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External links

Future of American Democracy web page

The Future of American Democracy Series at Yale University Press
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