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Follow the Money
How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
Häftad, 2015
746 kr
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Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropic organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political agenda, these foundations have …
The Business of America is Lobbying
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
Av Lee Drutman
Häftad, 2017
295 kr
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Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money …
Short Circuiting Policy
Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
Inbunden, 2020
1985 kr
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In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar …
Short Circuiting Policy
Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
Häftad, 2020
406 kr
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In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar …
The Rise of Political Action Committees
Interest Group Electioneering and the Transformation of American Politics
Inbunden, 2020
1557 kr
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Political Action Committees (PACs) are a prominent and contentious feature of modern American election campaigns. As organizations that channel money toward political candidates and causes, their influence in recent decades has been widely noted and often decried. Yet, there has been no …
Below the Radar
How Silence Can Save Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2015
905 kr
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In 1993 the nation exploded into anti-same sex marriage fervor when the Hawaii Supreme Court issued its decision to support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Opponents feared that all children, but especially those raised by lesbian or gay couples, would be harmed by the possibility of …
The Business of America is Lobbying
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
Av Lee Drutman
Inbunden, 2015
756 kr
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Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money …
Building a Business of Politics
The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy
Inbunden, 2016
553 kr
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Since the early twentieth century, political races in the United States have relied on highly paid political consultants to carefully curate the perceived personalities of hopeful politicians, to advise candidates using polling and analytics, and to affect voters' perceptions with marketing and …
The Allure of Order
High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling
Av Jal Mehta
Häftad, 2015
495 kr
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Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable. A …
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
Running the Numbers on Health Reform
Inbunden, 2017
2352 kr
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From all outward appearances, the American policymaking process has been revolutionized in the last half century. Beginning in the 1970s, new safeguards were put in place to prevent the kind of free-wheeling and sometimes reckless policymaking environment of earlier periods. These …
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
Running the Numbers on Health Reform
Häftad, 2017
803 kr
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From all outward appearances, the American policymaking process has been revolutionized in the last half century. Beginning in the 1970s, new safeguards were put in place to prevent the kind of free-wheeling and sometimes reckless policymaking environment of earlier periods. These …
The Other Rights Revolution
Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and …
The Other Rights Revolution
Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government
Häftad, 2016
688 kr
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In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state--the sets of rules, legal precedents, and …
The Outrage Industry
Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility
Av Jeffrey M. Berry, Sarah Sobieraj
Häftad, 2016
638 kr
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In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a …
Politics at Work
How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
Inbunden, 2018
552 kr
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Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy - sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Politics at Work …
Separate but Faithful
The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law & Legal Culture
Av Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Joshua C. Wilson
Inbunden, 2020
504 kr
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Fueled by grassroots activism and a growing collection of formal political organizations, the Christian Right became an enormously influential force in American law and politics in the 1980s and 90s. While this vocal and visible political movement has long voiced grave concerns about the Supreme …
Citizenship By Degree
U.S. Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship
Av Deondra Rose
Inbunden, 2018
2302 kr
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Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic status and political …
Citizenship By Degree
U.S. Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship
Av Deondra Rose
Häftad, 2018
543 kr
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Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic status and political …
The Cities on the Hill
How Urban Insitutions Transform National Politics
Inbunden, 2018
2169 kr
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Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and …
The Cities on the Hill
How Urban Insitutions Transform National Politics
Häftad, 2018
605 kr
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Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and …
Building a Business of Politics
The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy
Häftad, 2018
364 kr
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Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants. In Building a Business of Politics, Adam Sheingate traces the history of political consultants from its origins in the publicity experts and pollsters of the 1920s and 1930s to the strategists and media …
Framing Inequality
News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in U.S. Public Policy
Inbunden, 2019
1940 kr
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Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the pivotal policy debates of this period. Drawing on a wide range of empirical …
Framing Inequality
News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in U.S. Public Policy
Häftad, 2019
620 kr
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Neoliberal policy approaches have swept over the American political economy in recent decades. In Framing Inequality, Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the pivotal policy debates of this period. Drawing on a wide range of empirical …
Ideas with Consequences
The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution
Häftad, 2019
492 kr
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There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and …
Mobilized by Injustice
Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race
Inbunden, 2020
1540 kr
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Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutality in Ferguson, organized against stop-and-frisk …
Mobilized by Injustice
Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an excessive criminal justice system, activists protested police brutality in Ferguson, organized against stop-and-frisk …
Agents of Justice
How the American Bureaucracy Mobilizes Private Lawsuits to Make Policy Work
Av Quinn Mulroy
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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In the last half century since the height of the rights revolution - a period marked by significant rights expansions but limited government capacity to enforce them - efforts to defend individuals' and communities' rights have hinged on the effectiveness of the "litigation state:" a fragile but …
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Inbunden, 2026
1093 kr
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Corporations in the United States have for many decades sought to preserve and extend their power by claiming attributes and privileges reserved for natural persons.Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation presents a political history of corporate "identity politics." Wielding …
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
Häftad, 2026
269 kr
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Corporations in the United States have for many decades sought to preserve and extend their power by claiming attributes and privileges reserved for natural persons.Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation presents a political history of corporate "identity politics." Wielding …
Captive Market
The Politics of Private Prisons in America
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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A novel explanation for state prison privatization: that they do so to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits.One of the most controversial developments in the American criminal justice in the last few decades has been the development of the modern private prison industry. …
