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  • The Party Is Over

    The New Louisiana Politics

    by Jeremy Alford, Stephen Barnes, Mark Davis, Chase Edwards, Beverly Moore Haydel, Michael Henderson, Mirya Holman, Michelle N. Jeanis, David Khey, Anna Mahoney, Robert Mann, Jan Moller, Steven Procopio, Albert L. Samuels, Robert Travis Scott, Joshua Stockley, Rick Swanson, Gary Wagner ...
    For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Politicking While Female

    The Political Lives of Women

    by Robert Mann, Rosalyn Cooperman, Tessa Ditonto, David Andersen, Sylvia Gonzalez, Mirya Holman, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Danielle Lemi, Anna Mahoney, Meghan Kearney, Carly Shaffer, Monica C. Schneider, Jennie Sweet-Cushman ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Politicking While Female traces the challenges and opportunities that shape the experiences of women who pursue and hold positions of political leadership in the United States. In this volume, Nichole M. Bauer gathers new essays studying the forces that keep women out of political institutions, along with the hurdles faced by female candidates and politicians once they overcome those barriers ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric

    How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate

    by Jeanine E. Kraybill, Donna R. Hoffman, Christopher W. Larimer, Alison Howard, Raul Madrid Jr., Mirya Holman, Abby Perkins, Carrie Skulley, Stuart Wood, Nicole Mirkazemi0, Randy Villegas1, Chris Haynes2, Jessica Sattler3, Ivy A.M. Cargile4 ...
    Series series Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
    The rhetoric and political communication of the 2016 Presidential Election was arguably unconventional, partisan, and polarizing—becoming a defining characteristic of the tone and feel of the campaign. In this volume we examine how rhetoric and various political communication strategies influenced and shaped the contours of the election and ultimately its outcome. Witnessing the most diverse ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Systemic Racism 101

    A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

    by Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...
    Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Read more

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  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole ...
    Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and networking--infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of ... Read more

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  • Gangs of America

    The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

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    " Gangs of America is a brilliant page-turner revealing how powerful, greedy corporations wage institutional terrorism." —John Stauber, coauthor of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign ... Read more

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  • Uneven Ground

    Appalachia Since 1945

    by Ronald D. Eller ...
    This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII.Appalachia has played a complex role in the unfolding of American history. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of material production and ... Read more

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  • Whistling Past Dixie

    How Democrats Can Win Without the South

    by Thomas F. Schaller ...
    Two generations ago Kevin Phillips challenged Republicans to envision a southern-based national majority. In Whistling Past Dixie, Tom Schaller issues an equally transformative challenge to Democrats: Build a winning coalition outside the South.The South is no longer the "swing" region in American politics -- it has swung to the Republicans. Most of the South is beyond the Democrats' reach, and ... Read more

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  • American Tax Resisters

    by Romain D. Huret ...
    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of Jim Crow

    Ending Racism in Post-Racial America

    by F. Michael Higginbotham ...
    A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post-racial landscapeWhen America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines ... Read more

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  • The Divided States of America

    Why Federalism Doesn't Work

    by Donald F. Kettl ...
    Why federalism is pulling America apart—and how the system can be reformedFederalism was James Madison's great invention. An innovative system of power sharing that balanced national and state interests, federalism was the pragmatic compromise that brought the colonies together to form the United States. Yet, even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into the system because ... Read more

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