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  • Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers

    How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

    by David J. Samuels, Matthew S. Shugart ...
    This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans

    Voting Behavior in Brazil

    by David J. Samuels, Cesar Zucco ...
    Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil; what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This book shows that soon after redemocratization in the 1980s, over half of Brazilian voters expressed either a strong affinity or antipathy for or against a particular political party. In particular, that the contours ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Do the Poor Count?

    Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

    by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ...
    Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Those Damned Immigrants

    America’s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration

    by Ediberto Román, Michael A. Olivas ...
    Series Book 1 - Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
    Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigrationThe election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Immigration In America's Future

    Social Science Findings And The Policy Debate

    by David Heer ...
    Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. The bitter national debate over California's Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and the continuous, often illegal, crossings over the Mexican border into Texas and California are just a few of the episodes that have created a furor on local, state, and federal levels.In this timely and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best.Praise for the previous edition:"Magnificent. . . . The best ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Paradigms and Sand Castles

    Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics

    by Barbara Geddes ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Dream and Public Schools

    by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick ...
    The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series Book 1 - Myths Made in America
    Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

    Why Americans Vote the Way They Do

    by Andrew Gelman ...
    "Full of interesting arguments and insights that will turn many deep-seated beliefs about American politics on their head." —Stefan Fergus, Civilian ReaderOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotype ... Read more

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  • Contested Policy

    The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001

    by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. ...
    Series series Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
    Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America

    Edited by Roberto Gargarella, Conrado Hübner Mendes, Sebastián Guidi ...
    Constitutional law in Latin America embodies a mosaic of national histories, political experiments, and institutional transitions. No matter how distinctive these histories and transitions might be, there are still commonalities that transcend the mere geographical contiguity of these countries. This Handbook depicts the constitutional landscape of Latin America by shedding light on its most ... Read more

    $169.99 USD