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  • The Politics Of Realignment

    Party Change In The Mountain West

    by Peter F Galderisi, Michael S Lyons, Randy T. Simmons, John G Francis ...
    The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984 prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a national realignment of the electorate toward the Republican party. The 1986 elections, however, proved any predictions of a national realignment to be premature. A major shift in voting patterns had not taken place—except in the Mountain West, where a realignment was already in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Age of Austerity

    How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

    by Thomas Byrne Edsall ...
    One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

    Why Americans Vote the Way They Do

    by Andrew Gelman ...
    "Full of interesting arguments and insights that will turn many deep-seated beliefs about American politics on their head." —Stefan Fergus, Civilian ReaderOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotype ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America?

    What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

    by Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
    "Important and riveting . . . The solution isn't to redistribute wealth from the have-mores to the have-lesses. It's to redistribute political power to everyone." —Robert B. ReichAmerica faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran ... Read more

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  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Limits of Party

    Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

    by James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate ... Read more

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Public Policy

    Strategic Actors and Policy Domains

    by Donald C. Baumer, Carl E. Van Horn ...
    Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States—one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress, and explores the influence of corporate leaders, interest groups, bureaucrats, judges, and ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The Inevitable Party

    Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy

    by Seth Masket ...
    Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out parties. Masket investigates several of these anti-party reform efforts - from open primaries to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Litigation State

    Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S.

    by Sean Farhang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while 97 percent were litigated by private parties. When and why did private plaintiff-driven litigation become a dominant model for enforcing federal regulation? The Litigation State shows how government legislation created the nation's reliance upon private litigation, ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Partisan Balance

    Why Political Parties Don't Kill the U.S. Constitutional System

    by David R. Mayhew ...
    Series series Princeton Lectures in Politics and Public Affairs
    How partisan balance between the U.S. presidency and Congress is essential to successful governmentWith three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Dynamic Democracy

    Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States

    by Devin Caughey, Christopher Warshaw ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens’ capacity to influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-level evidence on public opinion, elections, and policymaking, Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw pose a powerful challenge to this pessimistic view. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD