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Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Av David Bateman, Ira Katznelson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
393 kr
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How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from …
Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Av David Bateman, Ira Katznelson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
290 kr
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How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from …
Political Parties and the State
The American Historical Experience
Häftad, 1994
684 kr
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This book collects a number of Martin Shefter's most important articles on political parties. They address three questions: Under what conditions will strong party organizations emerge? What influences the character of parties--in particular, their reliance on patronage? In what circumstances will …
Road to Nowhere
The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security
Häftad, 1999
545 kr
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During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated social policy initiatives in American history: Bill Clinton's 1993 proposal for comprehensive coverage under "managed competition." Here Jacob Hacker not only …
Hidden Welfare State
Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States
Häftad, 1999
572 kr
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Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an …
Stuck in Neutral
Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy
Häftad, 1999
572 kr
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According to conventional wisdom, big business wields enormous influence over America's political agenda and is responsible for the relatively limited scale of the country's social policies. In Stuck in Neutral, however, Cathie Jo Martin challenges that view, arguing that big business has limited …
Faithful and Fearless
Moving Feminist Protest inside the Church and Military
Häftad, 1999
925 kr
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Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960s, are now largely a historical memory. But Mary Fainsod Katzenstein argues that protest has not disappeared--it has simply moved off the streets into the country's core institutions. As a result, conflicts …
Kindred Strangers
The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business in America
Av David Vogel
Inbunden, 1996
2993 kr
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Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business, the relationship of business to politics in the United States remains a highly antagonistic one, characterized by substantial mutual distrust. This adversarial relationship is both reflected and reinforced not only in …
Imperiled Innocents
Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America
Häftad, 1998
519 kr
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Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much …
Facing Up to the American Dream
Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
Häftad, 1996
461 kr
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The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of our society, and yet we possess no other …
Experts and Politicians
Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago
Inbunden, 1995
1446 kr
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During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: brief triumph in New York, sustained success in Cleveland, and utter failure in Chicago. Kenneth Finegold seeks to explain this phenomenon by analyzing the …
Social Policy in the United States
Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 1996
624 kr
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Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and …
Political Organizations
Updated Edition
Häftad, 1995
846 kr
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A major work by one of America's eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote this book to counter two ideas: that popular interests will automatically generate political …
Disjointed Pluralism
Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress
Häftad, 2001
607 kr
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From the 1910 overthrow of "Czar" Joseph Cannon to the reforms enacted when Republicans took over the House in 1995, institutional change within the U.S. Congress has been both a product and a shaper of congressional politics. For several decades, scholars have explained this process in terms of a …
Bold Relief
Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy
Av Edwin Amenta
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional--exceptionally stingy and backwards. But Edwin Amenta reminds us here that sixty years ago the United States led the world in spending on social provision. He combines history and political theory to account for …
Shaped by War and Trade
International Influences on American Political Development
Av Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter
Häftad, 2002
519 kr
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In the twenty-first century, globalization poses major challenges to the key players in U.S. domestic politics--challenges similar to many that Americans have faced from abroad since the nation's founding. But it is only in recent decades that links have been drawn between the study of American …
Parting at the Crossroads
The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada
Inbunden, 1998
1035 kr
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As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of …
Power of Separation
American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto
Av Jessica Korn
Häftad, 1998
464 kr
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Jessica Korn challenges the notion that the eighteenth-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of twentieth-century governance. She demostrates the continuing relevance of these principles by questioning the dominant scholarship on …
Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928
Häftad, 2001
589 kr
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Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book, Daniel Carpenter contributes to our understanding of institutions by presenting a unified study of …
Dry Bones Rattling
Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy
Häftad, 2001
418 kr
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Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for …
Dividing Lines
The Politics of Immigration Control in America
Häftad, 2002
435 kr
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Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, …
Managing the President's Program
Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation
Häftad, 2002
809 kr
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The belief that U.S. presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all …
Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State
Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan
Häftad, 2003
572 kr
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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary …
Fighting for the Speakership
The House and the Rise of Party Government
Av Jeffery A. Jenkins, Charles Stewart
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a …
Governing the American State
Congress and the New Federalism, 1877-1929
Inbunden, 2006
1292 kr
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The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not born in a Big Bang, but instead emerged out of power struggles within the nation's major political …
How Policies Make Citizens
Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the …
Transformation of American Politics
Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism
Av Paul Pierson, Theda Skocpol
Häftad, 2007
504 kr
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The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. Leading young scholars take up …
Shaping Race Policy
The United States in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2007
418 kr
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Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of …
Paths Out of Dixie
The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
Inbunden, 2015
1035 kr
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The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elections, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, it is the final step in America's …
Filibuster
Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
Av Gregory Wawro, Eric Schickler
Häftad, 2007
809 kr
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Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the "filibuster," has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, …
