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  • After Broadcast News

    Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment

    by Bruce A. Williams, Michael X. Delli Carpini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Written Out of History

    The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

    by Mike Lee ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Some of America’s most important founders have been erased from our history books. In the fight to restore the true meaning of the Constitution, their stories must be told.In the earliest days of our nation, a handful of unsung heroes—including women, slaves, and an Iroquois chief—made crucial contributions to our republic. They pioneered the ideas that led to the Bill ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Which European Union?

    Europe after the Euro Crisis

    by Sergio Fabbrini ...
    Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa

    by Kate Baldwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa shows that unelected traditional leaders can facilitate democratic responsiveness. Ironically, chiefs' undemocratic character gives them a capacity to organize responses to rural problems that elected politicians and state institutions lack. Specifically, chiefs' longer time horizons encourage investment in local institutions that enable the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Anxious Politics

    Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World

    by Bethany Albertson, Shana Kushner Gadarian ...
    Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Complexity of Self Government

    Politics from the Bottom Up

    by Ruth Lane ...
    The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create the institutions within which they live. Understanding this practical level of human activity is made ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture

    by Jonathan Rynhold ...
    This book surveys discourse and opinion in the United States toward the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1991. Contrary to popular myth, it demonstrates that US support for Israel is not based on the pro-Israel lobby, but rather is deeply rooted in American political culture. That support has increased since 9/11. However, the bulk of this increase has been among Republicans, conservatives, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion

    Causes and Consequences

    by Jeffrey E. Cohen ...
    Although presidents may have a difficult time actually leading the public and Congress, voters still desire strong leadership from their commander in chief. In Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion, Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that the perception of presidential leadership in American politics is affected not so much by what presidents accomplish but by whether voters think their president is a ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Politicising Europe

    Integration and Mass Politics

    Edited by Swen Hutter, Edgar Grande, Hanspeter Kriesi ...
    Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?

    Party Activists, Party Capture, and the 'God Gap'

    by Ryan L. Claassen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    Do Evangelical activists control the Republican Party? Do secular activists control the Democratic Party? In Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?, Ryan Claassen carefully assesses the way campaign activists represent religious and non-religious groups in American political parties dating back to the 1960s. By providing a new theoretical framework for investigating the connections between macro ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

    by Bruce P. Frohnen, George W. Carey ...
    Americans are increasingly ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other forms of quasi-law that lack the predictability and consistency essential for the legal system to function properly. As a result, the U.S. Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern, and the government no longer acts according to the rule ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Tides of Consent

    How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics

    by James A. Stimson ...
    Politics is a trial in which those in government - and those who aspire to serve - make proposals, debate alternatives, and pass laws. Then the jury of public opinion decides. It likes the proposals or actions or it does not. It trusts the actors or it does not. It moves, always at the margin, and then those who benefit from the movement are declared winners. This book is about that public opinion ... Read more

    $27.89 USD