Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, Paperback - Suzanne Mettler

An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World...

Reducere. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare " Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: w...

It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the ...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Crises of Democracy - Adam Przeworski

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suzanne MettlerAmericans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding t...

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twe...

"Crouch's provocative argument in Post-Democracy has in many ways been vindicated by recent events, but these have also highlighted some weaknesses...

Shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Tracing democracy's history and development, this title revisits the assump...

Reducere. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and...

Reducere. DescriptionIs democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, i...

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. National Book AwardsAvailable in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One...

Reducere. A look at the 1970 Buffalo Party Convention and Pig Roast, otherwise known as the Eatonville Rock Festival. Although the event was officially cance...

DescriptionThis book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both scie...

Reducere. A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era "A wide-ranging and masterly genealogy of liberal intern...

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol i...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Daniel Q. GillionIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 7 tables.Number of pages: 224Collection: ...

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

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in t...

Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc ...

Reducere. The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): William L. (Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Harvard University's...

Reducere. Native Americans use storytelling to get to know one another, as well as, passing history and messages on to newer generations. These stories are a...

DescriptionThe 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government--and win t...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime m...

A magnificent gallery of images from the vault of the Capitol Hill's best insider news source

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980...

Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives - including those of other mode...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. National Book Award Longlist Kirkus Prize Finalist "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." --The New Republic"Solnit's exquisite essays mov...

Reducere. How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the September 11 terror a...

DescriptionAn artist examines the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes and what they tell us about the ...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...

Reducere. Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have pla...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...