The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, Paperback - Suzanne Mettler

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

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. It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption, confused by who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people r...

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Covadonga MeseguerIllustration(s): 26 b/w illus. 6 tables.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 202...

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

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Matthew (University of Pennsylvania) LevenduskyNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 217...

A supplemental text for American government courses in California that also include a CA politics component. Exploring the nature of public opinion...

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

Examining the structure, politics and historic development of taxation in several countries, this book compares three quite different political dem...

DescriptionDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinati...

DescriptionThis book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "stat...

Reducere. Just as investors want the companies they hold equity in to do well, homeowners have a financial interest in the success of their communities. If n...

DescriptionA stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracy The presidential election of 2016 highlighte...

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

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. In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Richard (Arizona State University) HerreraNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 217 x 27...

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds tha...

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

Reducere. Trump is out of the White House, but American democracy is on the ropes and teetering on the brink of competitive authoritarianism controlled by th...

Reducere. Trump is out of the White House, but American democracy is on the ropes and teetering on the brink of competitive authoritarianism controlled by th...

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 ...

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: ...

Reducere. Anna and the French Kiss meets Stoner & Spaz in a contemporary young adult coming-of-age novel about a girl, her struggles, and her art. Aiko Cassi...

America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our governme...

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US de...

Reducere. DescriptionSince the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often sha...

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

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...

Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so de...

DescriptionKenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are pa...