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  • Religion and Politics in the United States

    by Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown ...
    Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, Kenneth D. Wald and Allison Calhoun-Brown challenge the perception that religious influence in American politics is a problem to be solved. Instead, they contend that religion is a form of social identification that not only shapes our ideas about politics, but it also shapes the behavior of political elites and ordinary citizens, ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism

    by Kenneth D. Wald ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    American Jews have built a political culture based on the principle of equal citizenship in a secular state. This durable worldview has guided their political behavior from the founding to the present day. In The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism, Kenneth D. Wald traces the development of this culture by examining the controversies and threats that stimulated political participation by ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Jews in American Politics

    Essays

    by Joyce Antler, Jerome A. Chanes, David G. Dalin, Matthew R. Kerbel, Connie L. McNeely, Gerald M. Pomper, Miles A. Pomper, Edward Shapiro, David M. Shribman, Susan J. Tolchin, Kenneth D. Wald, Stephen J. Whitfield, Robert A. Burt, Benjamin Ginsberg, Anna Greenberg, Joseph I. Lieberman, Steven L. Spiegel ...
    Joseph Lieberman's Vice Presidential nomination and Presidential candidacy are neither the first nor last words on signal Jewish achievements in American politics. Jews have played an important role in American government since the early 1800s at least, and in view of the 2004 election, there is no political office outside the reach of Jewish American citizens.For the first time, Jews in American ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Politics of Cultural Differences

    Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period

    by David C. Leege, Kenneth D. Wald, Brian S. Krueger, Paul D. Mueller ...
    How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters? The authors of this groundbreaking study argue that they did so by doing what Democrats have also excelled at: triggering psychological mechanisms that deepen cultural divisions in the other party's coalition, thereby leading many of its ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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