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  • The 2020 Presidential Election in the South

    by Jay Barth, M. V. Hood III, Aubrey Jewett, Jonathan Knuckey, Scott Lasley, Vaughn May, Joel Turner, Scott E. Buchanan, J. Michael Bitzer, Shannon L. Bridgmon0, Charles S. Bullock III1, Anna R. Elinkowski2, Aaron A. Hitefield3, Robert E. Hogan4, Jeffrey P. Kash5, H. Gibbs Knotts6, Seth C. McKee7, Patrick R. Miller8, Janine A. Parry9, Stephen D. Shaffer0, Branwell DuBose Kapeluck2, John J. McGlennon3 ...
    Series series Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
    The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020 presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South. This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early 2020, as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Redistricting and Gerrymandering in North Carolina

    Battlelines in the Tar Heel State

    by J. Michael Bitzer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a historical and contemporary overview of the redistricting process, using North Carolina for the different political, electoral, and legal issues and debates over the practice of drawing legislative district boundaries. Redistricting has been characterized as “the most political activity in America,” and North Carolina has often been at the heart of recent controversies over this ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Let the People Pick the President

    The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College

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    The veteran journalist presents "an illuminating history and analysis" of the American electoral system—and a bold call for change ( Kirkus).The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core ... Read more

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  • The Agenda

    How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

    by Ian Millhiser ...
    What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America’s campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction

    by L. Sandy Maisel ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a ... Read more

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  • Whistling Past Dixie

    How Democrats Can Win Without the South

    by Thomas F. Schaller ...
    Two generations ago Kevin Phillips challenged Republicans to envision a southern-based national majority. In Whistling Past Dixie, Tom Schaller issues an equally transformative challenge to Democrats: Build a winning coalition outside the South.The South is no longer the "swing" region in American politics -- it has swung to the Republicans. Most of the South is beyond the Democrats' reach, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Uncounted

    The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

    by Gilda R Daniels ...
    Series Book 2 - Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies
    A history of the methods used to assault voting rights in America from the 1960s to 2020.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a ... Read more

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  • Fragile Democracy

    The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina

    by James L. Leloudis, Robert R. Korstad ...
    America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the ... Read more

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  • Debating the Presidency

    Conflicting Perspectives on the American Executive

    Edited by Richard J. Ellis, Michael Nelson ...
    The study of the presidency—the power of the office, the evolution of the executive as an institution, the men who have served—has generated a great body of research and scholarship. What better way to get students to grapple with the ideas of the literature than through conflicting perspectives on some of the most pivotal issues facing the modern presidency? Richard Ellis and Michael Nelson have ... Read more

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  • The Handy American Government Answer Book

    How Washington, Politics and Elections Work

    by Gina Misiroglu ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    A practical, accessible, engaging, and comprehensive guide to how American democracy works (and how it sometimes doesn't work).The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a ... Read more

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  • The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Politics

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue

    by Seth C. McKee ...
    “The apparent partisan stability of contemporary southern politics belies a complex and dynamic process that makes it doubtful one party can persist as the dominant force in the most diverse region of the United States . . . This truly ain’t your daddy’s Dixie.”This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is ... Read more

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  • Introduction to American Government

    by Larry Elowitz ...
    Series series Collins College Outlines
    Master Your Coursework with Collins College OutlinesThe Collins College Outline for Introduion to American Government covers all the major events in the creation of both the government and legislation, from the origins of the United States and the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to the three branches of government to civil rights and modern-day public policy. This detailed outline is a must ... Read more

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