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  • Polarized America, second edition

    The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

    by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal ...
    Series series Walras-Pareto Lectures
    Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Political Bubbles

    Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

    by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal ...
    How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis—and what needs to be done to avoid another similar eventBehind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"—policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles—arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests—aid, abet, and ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Political Game Theory

    An Introduction

    by Nolan McCarty, Adam Meirowitz ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory, mechanism design and a mathematical appendix covering, logic, real analysis, calculus and ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Polarization

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Nolan McCarty ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over several decades and are deeply rooted in the structure of American politics and society. In Polarization: What ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Can America Govern Itself?

    Edited by Frances E. Lee, Nolan McCarty ...
    Series series SSRC Anxieties of Democracy
    Can America Govern Itself? brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars to analyze how rising party polarization and economic inequality have affected the performance of American governing institutions. It is organized around two themes: the changing nature of representation in the United States; and how changes in the political environment have affected the internal processes of ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Polarization

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Nolan McCarty ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over several decades and are deeply rooted in the structure of American politics and society. In Polarization: What ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Polarization

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Nolan McCarty ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over several decades and are deeply rooted in the structure of American politics and society.In Polarization: What ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks

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  • Africa

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  • Fair Trade for All

    How Trade Can Promote Development

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  • Fiscal Federalism

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  • Remedy and Reaction

    The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

    by Paul Starr ...
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