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  • The Trump First Term

    Appraisals and Aftermath

    Edited by Julia Azari, Bert A. Rockman ...
    Series series Presidential Appraisals and Legacies
    An insightful and nuanced examination of a controversial and consequential presidency, written by some of the top presidential scholars in the nation.It was the election result that shocked the world.In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the forty-fifth president of the United States, thereby bringing an end to the political power of one family and, in retrospect, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

    by R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, Bert A. Rockman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Obama Legacy

    Edited by Bert A. Rockman, Andrew Rudalevige ...
    Series series
    “Hope” and “change” were the keywords of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and in his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he cited the evidence that he’d delivered—from reversing the Great Recession, rebooting the auto industry, and unleashing the longest stretch of job creation in the nation’s history to winning marriage equality and securing the right to health insurance for another 20 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Do Institutions Matter?

    Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad

    Edited by R. Kent Weaver, Bert A. Rockman ...
    As a stunning tide of democratization sweeps across much of the world, countries must cope with increasing problems of economic development, political and social integration, and greater public demand of scarce resources. That ability to respond effectively to these issues depends largely on the institutional choices of each of these newly democratizing countries. With critics of national ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Obama Presidency

    Appraisals and Prospects

    Edited by Andrew Rudalevige, Colin Campbell, Bert A. Rockman ...
    In the latest volume in this classic series, Rockman, Rudalevige, and Campbell once again bring together top-notch scholars, this time to take a comprehensive look at the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Assessing Obama’s political strategy, as well as his administration’s successes and setbacks, chapter authors critically examine a presidency marked by continued partisanship, major ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

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  • The Ethics of Immigration

    by Joseph Carens ...
    Series series Oxford Political Theory
    In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality. Carens begins by focusing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Democracy When the People Are Thinking

    Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

    by James S. Fishkin ...
    Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? If ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • political science is for everybody

    an introduction to political science

    Edited by amy l. atchison ...
    political science is for everybody is the first intersectionality-mainstreamed textbook written for introductory political science courses. While political science and politics are for everybody, political institutions are neither neutral nor unbiased. When we write political science textbooks that obscure the differences in how groups experience and interact with political institutions, we do ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Conscience of a Liberal

    by Paul Krugman ...
    In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • It's Even Worse Than It Looks

    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein ...
    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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