Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics

This book provides a counter-view on the conventional wisdom regarding the United States Senate. Specifically, it presents an alternative approach ...

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

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

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

Investigates the relationship between racial polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions in Tennessee in the first decade o...

This book explores the stagnation of democracy in the Western Balkans over the last decade. The author maps regional features of rising authoritari...

By focusing on neoliberal authoritarian, hegemonic and Islamist aspects, this book sheds light on long-term dynamics that resulted in the [Turkish]...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

DescriptionThe history that the textbooks left out. For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author D...

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

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...

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The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the larg...

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

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

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

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...

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Provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated cho...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapi...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

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

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

In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense pol...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Latif TasIllustration(s): 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 20...

In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheis...

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...

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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Robert C. SmithNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 239 x 160 x 23Cover type: Ha...

Contributor(s): Editor: Larry DiamondEditor: Marc F. PlattnerEditor: Christopher WalkerOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldene...

DescriptionDespite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent au...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-economic development in comparison to w...

Reducere. Rarely has America been so bitterly divided. Partisans now view those with differing opinions as the enemy. Cable news programs inflame passions ra...

In this book Gordon Friedrichs offers a pioneering insight into the implications of domestic polarization for US foreign policymaking and internati...

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...

Berry Phases in Electronic Structure Theory: Electric Polarization, Orbital Magnetization and Topological Insulators - David Vanderbilt

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

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

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

Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, ident...

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-...

This first study into the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan uses a diverse range of original source material to reveal what d...