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“john s jackson”

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  • The American Political Party System

    Continuity and Change Over Ten Presidential Elections

    by John S. Jackson ...
    From party polarization, elections, and internal party politics, to the evolution of the U.S. presidency, John S. Jackson's new book has something for everyone interested in American politics. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of the U.S. government to the formation of today's political powerhouses, Jackson provides a narrative sweep of American party history like none other.Unique to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Southern Illinois University at 150 Years

    Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges

    by Vanessa Ann Sneed, Thomas C. Britton, John Howard Carter, Paul Copeland, Mark Cosgrove, Paulette Curkin, Phillip V. David, Brad Dillard, Kathy Dillard, J. Kevin Dorsey, Patricia Eckert, Amy Etcheson, James E. Garvey, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Caleb Hale, P. Michael Kimmel, Aaron Lisec, John Lock, Judith Marshall, Lori Merrill-Fink, J. Hurley Myers, John H. Pollitz, Dale O. Ritzel, Pamela J. Charlson Speer, Lori Stettler, Lester E. Tichenor, Susan Tulis, Elaine M. Vitello, Mark J. Wagner, Thomas Weber, David L. Wilson, Tomasz Wiltowski, Steve Buhman, Wayne Larsen, John S. Haller Jr., Assistant Professor Kristine Priddy ...
    Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major anniversary was published.Chapters reflect on SIU’s successful athletics program, the various colleges ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • The Case for Impeachment

    by Allan J. Lichtman ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." — The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, ... Read more

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  • Dirty Sexy Politics

    by Meghan McCain ...
    Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.What makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young, creative, and vocal members of the GOP, she's unafraid to mix it up and speak her mind. In Dirty Sexy ... Read more

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  • How the Right Lost Its Mind

    by Charles J. Sykes ...
    "Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its ... Read more

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  • It Still Takes a Candidate

    Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

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  • Big Money

    2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics

    by Kenneth P Vogel ...
    Mark Hanna -- the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons -- was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 ... Read more

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  • Prototype Politics

    Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

    by Daniel Kreiss ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Given the advanced state of digital technology and social media, one would think that the Democratic and Republican Parties would be reasonably well-matched in terms of their technology uptake and sophistication. But as past presidential campaigns have shown, this is not the case. So what explains this odd disparity? Political scientists have shown that Republicans effectively used the strategy of ... Read more

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  • Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments

    Edited by Daniela Giannetti, Kenneth Benoit ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments.The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated ... Read more

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  • The 2008 Election in Florida

    Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket

    by Robert E. Crew Jr. ...
    Series series Patterns and Trends in Florida Elections
    During 2008, the Democrats achieved in Florida a goal that had eluded them in all but three of the national elections since 1964: victory in the presidential race. Despite this success, the Republicans retained their dominance in the U.S. Congress and in the Florida State Legislature. The 2008 Elections in Florida utilizes multiple types of data to provide an explanation for the disparate outcomes ... Read more

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