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  • African-American Political Psychology

    Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Edited by T. Philpot, I. White ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume addresses questions such as: How do the unique experiences of Blacks in America influence their political psychology? What are the psychological mechanisms underlying Blacks' orientation toward politics and can these mechanisms help account for observed differences in Black political attitudes and behavior? ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Imperative of Integration

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    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

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  • No Excuses

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  • White Logic, White Methods

    Racism and Methodology

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  • Moved to Action

    Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics

    by Hahrie C. Han ...
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  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

    by Donald R. Kinder, Nathan P. Kalmoe ...
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    Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position ... Read more

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    Series series History and Philosophy of Education Series
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  • Public Opinion

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    Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book also serves as a ... Read more

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    Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy

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    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
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