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“mark edward ryan”

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  • The Enduring Legacy

    Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools

    by Mark Edward Ryan ...
    Enduring Legacy describes a multifaceted paradox—a constant struggle between those who espouse a message of hope and inclusion and others who systematically plan for exclusion. Structured inequality in the nation’s schools is deeply connected to social stratification within American society. This paradox began in the eighteenth century and has proved an enduring legacy. Mark Ryan provides ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Woke

    Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

    by Richard Hanania ...
    Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down.Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in the last few years. In this book, he directs his attention to the culture war that has driven society ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

    The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

    by Lee Drutman ...
    American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Rural Voter

    The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America

    by Nicholas F. Jacobs, Daniel Shea ...
    The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Polarized by Degrees

    How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics

    by Matt Grossmann, David A. Hopkins ...
    Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized the nation's political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war. In a sequel to their award-winning collaboration Asymmetric Politics, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Who Rules America?

    The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s

    by G William Domhoff ...
    The 8th edition, already significantly updated, has now been further updated in 2023 to include the likely impact of the post-pandemic cutbacks, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the Trump indictments on the 2024 national elections. These factors could lead to more economic growth and social support for families, schools, and health care--or an increase in inequality, white male supremacy, and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • America's Failing Experiment

    How We the People Have Become the Problem

    by Kirby Goidel ...
    America’s Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem, makes the controversial claim that the American political system suffers from too much democracy. An accomplished public policy expert coeditor of the Journal Survey Practice, Kirby Goidel argues that our elected officials are overly responsive to public opinion which is often poorly informed, incoherent, and uncertain. The ... Read more

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  • Wake Up America

    Black Women on the Future of Democracy

    Edited by Keisha N. Blain ...
    **"This book is as urgent as it is imperative." —Ibram X. Kendi, best-selling author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom the coeditor of the best-selling Four Hundred Souls, a galvanizing anthology for those seeking to build an inclusive democracy.**In 1968, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer called for Americans to “wake up” if they wanted to “make democracy a reality.” Today, as Black communities ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Hollow Hope

    Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

    by Gerald N. Rosenberg ...
    Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reform—now updated with new data and analysis.Since its first publication in 1991, The Hollow Hope has spurred debate and challenged assumptions on both the left and the right about the ability of courts to bring about durable political and social change. What Gerald N. Rosenberg argued then, and what ... Read more

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  • White-Collar Government

    The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

    by Nicholas Carnes ...
    Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than ... Read more

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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

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