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  • Selecting a President

    Series Libro 1 - Fundamentals of American Government
    The debut of a brand-new civics series for high school seniors and college freshmen, that clearly, concisely and cleverly explains how the United States elects its presidentSelecting a President explains the nuts and bolts of our presidential electoral system while drawing on rich historical anecdotes from past campaigns. Among the world's many democracies, U.S. presidential elections are unique, ... Leer más

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  • The U.S. House of Representatives

    Fundamentals of American Government

    The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors and college freshmen-or any citizen interested in a concise yet authoritative exploration of this representative entity ... Leer más

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  • The Swing Vote

    The Untapped Power of Independents

    de Linda Killian ...
    As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on ... Leer más

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  • It's Even Worse Than It Looks

    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Leer más

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  • Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

    The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and Foreign AffairsA much-needed wake-up call for the Democrats, which reveals how the party has lost sight of its core principles and endangered its political future—from the authors of “one of the most influential political books of the 21st century” (The New York Times).For decades, American politics has been plagued by a breakdown ... Leer más

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  • The Primary Solution

    Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

    de Nick Troiano ...
    In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution is the “thought-provoking” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) answer the country needs.Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only twenty percent of Americans think it’s doing a good job—yet ninety percent of ... Leer más

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  • Reviving the Strike

    How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America

    de Joe Burns ...
    If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding ... Leer más

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  • Upending American Politics

    Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance

    Edición de Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo ...
    The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending ... Leer más

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  • Defending the Filibuster

    The Soul of the Senate

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This award-winning study of today's filibuster debate provides a historical overview of Senate rules and an updated analysis of recent controversies.In an age of increasingly divided partisan politics, many argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or ... Leer más

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  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a ... Leer más

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  • You Call This Democracy?

    How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People

    A 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALISTAmerica is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them.The political landscape has never been so tumultuous: issues with the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a lack of ... Leer más

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  • Party Wars

    Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making

    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Party Wars is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf now separating the two major parties developed and how today’s fierce partisan competition affects the political process and national policy.Barbara Sinclair traces the current ideological divide to changes in the Republican party in the 1970s and 1980s, including the rise of neoconservativism and the Religious Right. Because of ... Leer más

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