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“samara klar”

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  • Partisan Hostility and American Democracy

    Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter

    by James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky ...
    An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity.For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to the opposing party, are damaging democracy. Is partisanship as dangerous as we fear it is?To provide an answer, this book offers a nuanced evaluation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Independent Politics

    How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

    by Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov ...
    The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Uncivil Agreement

    How Politics Became Our Identity

    by Lilliana Mason ...
    The psychology behind political partisanship: "The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself." —Ezra Klein, VoxPolitical polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Conformity

    The Power of Social Influences

    by Cass R Sunstein, Robert H Frank ...
    The New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Nudge reveals the appeal—and the danger—of conformity: "Fascinating and surprising revelations." — GQWe live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Radical American Partisanship

    Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy

    by Nathan P. Kalmoe, Lilliana Mason ...
    "The definitive account of violent partisan hostilities in twenty-first–century American politics . . . one of the most important political science books in decades." —Michael Tesler, University of California, IrvinePolitical violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do Facts Matter?

    Information and Misinformation in American Politics

    by Katherine Levine Einstein, Jennifer L. Hochschild ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Compulsory Voting

    For and Against

    by Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill ...
    In many democracies, voter turnout is low and getting lower. If the people choose not to govern themselves, should they be forced to do so? For Jason Brennan, compulsory voting is unjust and a petty violation of citizens' liberty. The median non-voter is less informed and rational, as well as more biased, than the median voter. According to Lisa Hill, compulsory voting is a reasonable imposition ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • It Still Takes a Candidate

    Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • 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

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters

    by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler ...
    In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The American Dream and the Public Schools

    by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick ...
    The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Give Children the Vote

    On Democratizing Democracy

    by John Wall ...
    Throughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are under 18 years of age. However, children are becoming increasingly active in political movements for climate regulation, labor rights, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD