Divided by Color

Donald R Kinder

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• When news of the O. J. Simpson verdict swept across the United States, a nation stood divided as blacks and whites reacted differently to the decision... Lees meer

Golden Rule

Thomas Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• "To discover who rules, follow the gold." This is the argument of Golden Rule , a provocative, pungent history of modern American politics. Although t... Lees meer

Numbered Voices

Susan Herbst

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Quantifying the American mood through opinion polls appears to be an unbiased means for finding out what people want. But in Numbered Voices, Susan He... Lees meer

Why Congressional Reforms Fail

E Scott Adler

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the House committee system, which has been called inefficient, o... Lees meer

Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War

John Mueller

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• The Persian Gulf crisis may well have been the most extensively polled episode in U.S. history as President Bush, his opponents, and even Saddam Husse... Lees meer

Real Democracy

Frank M Bryan

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American demo... Lees meer

Is Anyone Responsible?

Shanto Iyengar

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• A disturbingly cautionary tale, Is Anyone Responsible? anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished po... Lees meer

Mayors and Money

Ester R Fuchs

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Este... Lees meer

The Logic of Delegation

D Roderick Kiewiet

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Why do majority congressional parties seem unable to act as an effective policy-making force? They routinely delegate their power to others-internally... Lees meer

The Two Reconstructions

Richard M Valelly

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2... Lees meer

Common Knowledge

W Russell Neuman

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result... Lees meer

Race, Redistricting, and Representation

David T Canon

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Since the creation of minority-dominated congressional districts eight years ago, the Supreme Court has condemned the move as akin to "political apart... Lees meer

The Myth of Democratic Failure

Donald A Wittman

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• This book refutes one of the cornerstone beliefs of economics and political science: that economic markets are more efficient than the processes and i... Lees meer

The Mild Voice of Reason

Joseph M Bessette

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• In recent years, many Americans and more than a few political scientists have come to believe that democratic deliberation in Congress-whereby judgmen... Lees meer

For the Many or the Few

John G Matsusaka

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Direct democracy is alive and well in the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the law into their own ha... Lees meer

Turf Wars

David C King

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turf-or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill-can make all the difference. Turf governs t... Lees meer

Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House

David W Rohde

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Since the Second World War, congressional parties have been characterized as declining in strength and influence. Research has generally attributed th... Lees meer

Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement

Dennis Chong

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial s... Lees meer

Defining the National Interest

Peter Trubowitz

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so diffic... Lees meer

Taken by Storm

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• In the most comprehensive study of the media and foreign policy, twenty distinguished scholars and analysts explain the role played by the mass media ... Lees meer

The President in the Legislative Arena

Jon R Bond

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• In recent years, the executive branch's ability to maneuver legislation through Congress has become the measure of presidential success or failure. Al... Lees meer

Roots of Reform

Elizabeth Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues tha... Lees meer

Rules and Restraint

David M Primo

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Government spending has increased dramatically in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable appet... Lees meer