Balancing Democracy and Rights

Marc Landy, Sidney M. Milkis

5th Edition

Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Stuart A. Wright

This book explores an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state leading up to the Oklahoma ...

Party Influence in Congress

Steven S. Smith

Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of parties in the U.S. Congress. Political scientists differ ...

Edited by Carol M. Swain

Debating Immigration presents 18 original essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and pre-eminent academics, that explore the ...

Dean Baker

Describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. ...

Party Government in the House

Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. McCubbins

The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides a new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in ...

Equality and Community in America

Rodney E. Hero

Race and racial diversity are important aspects of America and have been shown to substantially affect social relations and the ...

Zoltan L. Hajnal

This book is an examination of how experience under black mayors affects the racial attitudes of individual whites and the ...

Daniel N. Shaviro

What's in a word? Plenty, when it's a word such as 'taxes', 'spending', or 'deficits' that pervades Washington political debate ...

What Lobbyists Want (and How They Try to Get It)

Anthony J. Nownes

Offers an accessible overview of the role of lobbying in American politics. It draws upon extant research as well as ...

Edited by William M. Sage, Rogan Kersh

Medical malpractice lawsuits are common and controversial in the United States. Since early 2002, doctors' insurance premiums for malpractice coverage ...

The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Marie Gottschalk

Over the last three decades the United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people ...

Daniel R. Pinello

This book tells engaging first-hand narratives about what happened in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Multnomah County, Sandoval County and New Paltz ...

Shaping the Future of American Politics

Edited by Susan J. Carroll, Richard L. Fox

This book offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2004 ...

Why Women Don't Run for Office

Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox

It Takes a Candidate serves as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ...

Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, Sara C. Benesh

This book comprehensively examines the United States legal system. While the most extensive coverage is given to the US Supreme ...

Dennis J. Goldford

The book presents the novel argument that a critique of the underlying premises of originalism dissolves not just originalism but ...

An Introduction to American Constitutional Law

Richard H. Fallon

Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon introduces non-lawyers to the workings of American constitutional law. He writes with clarity and ...

Thad Kousser

This is the first book-length study of the effects that term limit laws - restrictions on the number of years ...

Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek

Recently, American political development has claimed the attention of a growing band of political scientists, and "APD" is emerging as ...