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“jonathan m ladd”

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  • Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters

    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior? This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Words That Matter

    How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign

    by Leticia Bode, Ceren Budak, Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    How the 2016 news media environment allowed Trump to win the presidencyThe 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did everything possible to reinforce that impression. But to an unprecedented degree the campaign also was about the news media and its relationships with the man who won and the woman he defeated.Words That Matter assesses how the ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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  • Lobbying the New President

    Interests in Transition

    by Heath Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas, policies, and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared that lobbyists would be forbidden from serving his transition and issued stiff regulations and rules ... Read more

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  • Democracy for Realists

    Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

    by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about itDemocracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Victory Lab

    The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

    by Sasha Issenberg ...
    The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign—now updated with a new postscript.Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory ... Read more

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  • Cyberwar

    How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know

    by Kathleen Hall Jamieson ...
    The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar, Kathleen Hall Jamieson marshals the troll posts, unique polling data, analyses of how the press ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Social Policy

    Edited by James O. Midgley, Michelle M. Livermore ...
    Social policy is a continuously evolving field requiring constant review, documentation, and analysis. The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more ... Read more

    $141.29 USD

  • Radical Possibilities

    Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

    by Jean Anyon ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Ground Wars

    Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

    by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen ...
    Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of ... Read more

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  • The American Dream and the 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

  • Winning Elections in the 21st Century

    by Dick Simpson, Betty O'Shaughnessy ...
    A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes, you can! And the book she recommends for candidates, campaign staff, volunteers, and citizens is Winning Elections in the 21st Century, a handbook for anyone who wants to know how campaigns are run and won today.Written by two longtime ... Read more

    $21.59 USD