American Politics, Paperback

A vibrant introduction to the world's oldest democratic republic, which is fully up-to-date, covering Obama's presidency and the rise of the Tea Pa...

Latin American Politics reflects just how much the region has changed in the last two decades by drawing on contemporary research in comparative st...

What is causing American public opinion to move into increasingly alt-right terrain? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book shows that A...

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all...

Reducere. Honorable Profession: A Novel of American Politics is a compelling, hopeful story of a cynical former Secret Service agent and his idealistic daugh...

Polsby and Wildavsky's classic text argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with ...

The question at the center of the seventeenth edition of The Irony Of Democracy is "How democratic is American society?" While most American govern...

A concise and engaging introduction to American politics organized around the themes of self-interest and representation. The authors assess Americ...

Keywords for Capitalism: Power, Society, Politics is a field guide to the way we talk about politics in the United States today.Publisher: Haymarke...

Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works forc...

Reducere. History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his ...

The white nationalist movement in the United States is nothing new. Yet, prior to the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ma...

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Reducere. Through pandemic, protests, and polarization, Americans went to the polls in 2020, one of the most contentious elections in American history. Conti...

Reducere. The "intelligent and sweeping" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776--and how Boston's...

On August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American r...

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A blend of historical and contemporary analysis that opens up many of the puzzles - and curses - of modern American politics, for both professional...

Reducere. American society is rapidly secularizing-a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity-and politics is a big part of the reas...

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): David FreedlanderNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 206 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Dangerously Divided is for scholars, lay readers, journalists, and policy makers who are interested in American politics, race and ethnicity, class...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

Reducere. The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwe...

Reducere. -A must-read, sure to engage. . . An important and richly narrated reminder to women of why, 'If you not at the table, you're on the menu.'- --Jess...

Reducere. Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder detail the history of "one person, one vote" in American political theory and politics, and tell the story of...

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state's progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself tur...

Reducere. Based on Levenda's research into Mormonism, Freemasonry, and esoteric societies over the past thirty years, this book is intended for an audience t...

The people, ideals and events that have shaped a nation - in comic book form

Drawing on four years of groundbreaking research among voters across the United States, Lord Ashcroft examines the success of Biden, the appeal of ...

Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal p...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): David McKayNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 181 x 253 x 31Cover type: Paperback /...

American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective, Paperback

Reducere. American Indian Politics and the American Political System is the most comprehensive text written from a political science perspective. It analyzes...

In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to ...

Reducere. DescriptionSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how...

This groundbreaking book challenges the dominant view of ideology held by both political scientists and political commentators. Rather than viewing...

Leading political scientists provide a new framework for understanding the interplay of politics and economics in the US, drawing on comparative an...

For over forty years, Latin American Politics and Development has kept instructors and students abreast of current affairs and changes in Latin Ame...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lydia M AndradeIllustration(s): 95 Line drawings, color; 81 Halftones, color; 25 Tables, color; 176 Illus...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the ...

Publisher: Primary InformationNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 228 x 312 x 41Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Howie ...

A major recasting of American history from the vantage of immigration politics

Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the US through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their ass...

Issues like COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, massive unemployment, trade wars and cyberattacks add to the complexity of the U.S. pol...

This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution. He also surveys the development of radicalism in B...

Contrary to popular belief, the problem with US higher education is not too much politics but too little. Far from being bastions of liberal bias, ...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

This book is a brief history of the human-caused climate change debate from its origins in the 19th century until today. The goal is to put the pol...

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons...

Reducere. DescriptionDomestic Terrorist or American Patriot? Cliven Bundy The Federal Government treats him as a domestic terrorist.The media characterizes h...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues. This accessible undergraduate textboo...

Reducere. Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted wit...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*'A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we trul...

Rafshoon, Bianca Rowlett, Sarah B. Rowley, Ana Stevenson, Barbara Winslow, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Nancy Beck YoungIllustrations: 23 Illustrations, black...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on pr...

This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whe...

Engstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to the broad community of s...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): Doris A. GraberNumber of pages: 728Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 176 x 228 x 26Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek,...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety...

At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together di...