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  • Partisan Nation

    The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era

    by Paul Pierson, Eric Schickler ...
    A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics.The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics subsuming and transforming the local. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.In this paradigm-shifting book, political scientists Paul Pierson ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Congress and Its Members

    by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, Eric Schickler, James M. Curry ...
    Congress and Its Members has been the gold standard for Congress courses for thirty years. Now in its 20th edition, the book offers comprehensive and current coverage of the U.S. Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election.The 20th Edition covers the outcomes of the 2024 ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Governing in a Polarized Age

    Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America

    Edited by Alan S. Gerber, Eric Schickler ...
    Many political observers have expressed doubts as to whether America's leaders are up to the task of addressing major policy challenges. Yet much of the critical commentary lacks grounding in the systematic analysis of the core institutions of the American political system including elections, representation, and the law-making process. Governing in a Polarized Age brings together more than a ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

    Edited by Eric Schickler, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Investigating the President

    Congressional Checks on Presidential Power

    by Eric Schickler, Douglas L. Kriner ...
    Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigations are a powerful tool for members of Congress to counter presidential aggrandizement. By shining a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Racial Realignment

    The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965

    by Eric Schickler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters

    by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler ...
    In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Disjointed Pluralism

    Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress

    by Eric Schickler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    From the 1910 overthrow of "Czar" Joseph Cannon to the reforms enacted when Republicans took over the House in 1995, institutional change within the U.S. Congress has been both a product and a shaper of congressional politics. For several decades, scholars have explained this process in terms of a particular collective interest shared by members, be it partisanship, reelection worries, or policy ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

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  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At War with Government

    How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump

    by Amy Fried, Douglas B. Harris ...
    Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Is Congress Broken?

    The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock

    Edited by William F. Connelly, Jr., Gary J. Schmitt, John J. Pitney Jr. ...
    Making Congress Work, Again, Within the Constitutional SystemCongress for many years has ranked low in public esteem-joining journalists, bankers, and union leaders at the bottom of polls. And in recent years there's been good reason for the public disregard, with the rise of hyper-partisanship and the increasing inability of Congress to carry out its required duties, such as passing spending ... Read more

    $32.39 USD