Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series – serie
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19 produkter
Senators on the Campaign Trail
The Politics of Representation
Häftad, 1998
276 kr
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This is a book about the politics of representative democracy, written from the perspective of the politicians who make it work. Typically, political scientists study campaigns from the perspective of the voter and for the purpose of explaining election outcomes. But campaigns also need to be …
Politics of Education
Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill
Häftad, 2002
213 kr
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Drawing from his experiences as a long-term congressman, John Brademas focuses on policy formation to examine the politics of federal support for education. Brademas provides both analytic histories of representative education legislation and philosophical meditations on the relationship between …
Democratic Century
Av Seymour Martin Lipset, Jason Lakin
Inbunden, 2004
402 kr
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Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional analyses to explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and failed in others.Defining democracy as a …
Diminished Democracy
From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Häftad, 2004
333 kr
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Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent times, but most are run by professionals who lobby Congress or deliver social services to clients. What …
Party Wars
Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making
Häftad, 2006
276 kr
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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 …
Disconnect
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Häftad, 2011
276 kr
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Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today's party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina's acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of …
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Av Jennifer L. Hochschild, Katherine Levine Einstein
Häftad, 2016
248 kr
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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 …
Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Inbunden, 2017
290 kr
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James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those …
How America Lost Its Mind
The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy
Inbunden, 2019
303 kr
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Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains …
Democratic Century
Av Seymour Martin Lipset, Jason Lakin
Häftad, 2020
333 kr
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Where and why was democracy successful in the twentieth century? In The Democratic Century, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason Lakin combine social, cultural, economic, and institutional analyses to explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and failed in others.Defining democracy as a …
Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Häftad, 2021
218 kr
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James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787 - 1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those …
How America Lost Its Mind
The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy
Häftad, 2021
212 kr
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Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains …
Under Fire and Under Water Volume 16
Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West
Inbunden, 2023
357 kr
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Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, …
Senate Syndrome Volume 12
The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Häftad, 2024
343 kr
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With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place …
Under Fire and Under Water Volume 16
Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West
Häftad, 2025
254 kr
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Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation - a 'Great American Desert,' as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, …
Case for Congress Volume 17
Av Frances Lee
Inbunden, 2026
344 kr
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Polarized. Dysfunctional. Toxic. Broken. These are only some of the negative words Americans use to describe the United States Congress. Nowadays hardly anyone has something good to say about either the House of Representatives or the Senate, the two bodies that make up Congress. But is this common …
End of the Republican Era
Häftad, 1996
245 kr
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In The End of the Republican Era, Theodore J. Lowi predicts not only a collapse of the Republican coalition but also the potential collapse of the United States' republican experiment at large. Professing that the ideologies of dominant political coalitions contain the seeds of their own …
Disconnect
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Inbunden, 2009
456 kr
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Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today's party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina's acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of …
Senate Syndrome
The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Inbunden, 2014
410 kr
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With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place …
