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  • Living Legislation

    Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

    by William J. Novak, Jeffrey E. Cohen, Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Sean Gailmard, Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, William G. Howell, Forrest Maltzman, Charles R. Shipan, Amihai Glazer, David E. Lewis, Stuart Chinn, Vesla M. Weaver, David R. Mayhew, Sidney M. Milkis ...
    Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Party Politics in America

    by Marjorie Randon Hershey, Barry C. Burden ...
    Long regarded as the “gold standard” of political parties texts, this new, nineteenth edition of Party Politics in America brings its comprehensive and authoritative coverage of party politics into an age of heightened partisan conflict; threats to the acceptance of democratic institutions; changes in the balance of power among the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court, and judicial rulings ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Measure of American Elections

    Edited by Barry C. Burden, Charles Stewart, III ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy
    Policymaking in the realm of elections is too often grounded in anecdotes and opinions, rather than in good data and scientific research. To remedy this, The Measure of American Elections brings together a dozen leading scholars to examine the performance of elections across the United States, using a data-driven perspective. This book represents a transformation in debates about election reform, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Why Americans Split Their Tickets

    Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government

    by Barry C. Burden, David C. Kimball ...
    In Why Americans Split Their Tickets, Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball argue that divided government is produced unintentionally. Using a new quantitative method to analyze voting in presidential, House, and Senate elections from 1952 to 1996, they reject the dominant explanation for divided government, that ticket splitting is done to balance parties that are far from the center. The ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • In Defense of Judicial Elections

    by Chris W. Bonneau, Melinda Gann Hall ...
    Series series Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation
    One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or should they be subject to the approval of the electorate and the processes that accompany popular control? While this debate is interesting and often quite heated, it usually occurs without reference to empirical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Representation and Institutional Design

    by Rebekah L. Herrick ...
    An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs. This is a complex issue as there is no universally accepted definition of good representation. Representation and Institutional Design addresses the issues of institutions and representation by examining how variation in institutional design can affect many aspects of how legislators represent ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools

    The Politics of Education Reform

    by Jack Jennings ...
    April 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the landmark legislation that has provided the foundation of federal education policy in the United States. In Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools, longtime policy analyst Jack Jennings examines the evolution of federal education policy and outlines a bold and controversial vision for its ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Exceptions to the Rule

    The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate

    by Molly E. Reynolds ...
    Special rules enable the Senate to act despite the filibuster. Sometimes.Most people believe that, in today's partisan environment, the filibuster prevents the Senate from acting on all but the least controversial matters. But this is not exactly correct. In fact, the Senate since the 1970s has created a series of special rules-described by Molly Reynolds as majoritarian exceptions”-that limit ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Implementing Term Limits

    The Case of the Michigan Legislature

    by Marjorie Ellen Sarbaugh-Thompson, Thomas Lyke Thompson ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits promotes this reform at all levels of government. But are advocates correct that term limits ensure citizens dedicated to the common good—rather than self-serving career politicians—run government? Or does the enforced high rate of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Presidential Leverage

    Presidents, Approval, and the American State

    by Daniel E. Ponder ...
    Series series Studies in the Modern Presidency
    For scholars, pundits, the public, and presidents themselves, presidential approval is an evergreen subject. Its actual impact, however, is often unclear: all too frequently approval is reported in a vacuum, dissociated from the American state writ large. Presidential Leverage reaffirms the importance of this contested metric. By situating approval within the context of public trust in government, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Championing Child Care

    by Sally Cohen ...
    Series series Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
    Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Legislating in the Dark

    Information and Power in the House of Representatives

    by James M. Curry ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Political science scholar James M. Curry explores the inner workings of Congress's House of Representatives in this thought-provoking analysis.The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to digest ... Read more

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