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  • Communicating Politics Online

    Disruption and Democracy

    by Chapman Rackaway ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This second edition explores the relationship between politics and media, with a particular emphasis on the significant disruptive changes to media and technology that have faced journalists, campaigners, and the public in recent years. The first edition, in 2014, described the earliest elements of social and online media: Web 2.0, the ‘information economy,’ and the changes from traditional ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Primary Elections and American Politics

    The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform

    by Chapman Rackaway, Joseph Romance ...
    Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump

    by Paul Rutledge, Chapman Rackaway ...
    The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century

    A Multidimensional Inquiry

    by Michael T. Rogers, Michael A. Armato, Jessica L. Aubin, Elizabeth Bennion, Gary E. Bugh, Carolyn Campbell, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury, Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Heather K. Evans, Steven E. Galatas0, Shamira Gelbman1, Jeffrey D. Hilmer2, Cindy Pressley3, Chapman Rackaway4, J. Cherie Strachan5, Brendan Toner6, Barbara Warner7, Mike Yawn8, Sally Friedman9, Donald M. Gooch0, Robert Maranto2 ...
    Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible today. Inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of American democracy in the early 1800s, ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Civic Failure and Its Threat to Democracy

    Operator Error

    by Chapman Rackaway ...
    The greatest threat to American democracy is the voting public. Candidates for political office, organized interests, and political parties are often blamed for the ills of American democracy, but this book places the focus on the core issue in American politics: a disengaged, demanding, and often contradictory voting public. Structural reforms such as the direct primary, term limits, and campaign ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Communicating Politics Online

    by Chapman Rackaway ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The world of political communication is morphing almost constantly into new areas and realities. Online-only news, Web 2.0 user-created content, hyperlocal news, and the rise of the Twittersphere have all contributed to an ever-changing media environment. Communicating Politics Online captures the constant change of new online media. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • American Political Parties Under Pressure

    Strategic Adaptations for a Changing Electorate

    Edited by Chapman Rackaway, Laurie L. Rice ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the changing electoral and political circumstances in which American political parties found themselves during the 2016 election, and the strategic adaptations this new pressure may require. The respective establishments of both major political parties have found themselves facing serious challenges. Some observers wondered if realignment was in progress, and whether the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition

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    Can real news survive in an era of social media and spin? An updated edition of the "smart, provocative introduction to media and American politics."—Paul Freedman, author of Campaign Advertising and American DemocracyFor over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news ... Read more

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  • American Politics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard M. Valelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system. This Very Short Introduction gives readers a concise, accessible, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    by Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Michael J. Copps, Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, John Nichols, Clay Shirkey, David Simon, Paul Starr, Leonard Downie ...
    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

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  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Read more

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  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

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    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

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