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American Politics

American Government

Balancing Democracy and Rights


Marc Landy, Sidney M. Milkis

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The American Congress

5th Edition

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

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Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing

Stuart A. Wright


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

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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 ...

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Debating Immigration

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 ...

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The United States since 1980

Dean Baker


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

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Legislative Leviathan

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 ...

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Racial Diversity and Social Capital

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 ...

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Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership

Zoltan L. Hajnal


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

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Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy

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 ...

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Total Lobbying

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 ...

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Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System

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 ...

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The Prison and the Gallows

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 ...

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America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage

Daniel R. Pinello


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

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Gender and Elections

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 ...

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It Takes a Candidate

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 ...

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The Supreme Court in the American Legal System

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 ...

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The American Constitution and the Debate over Originalism

Dennis J. Goldford


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

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The Dynamic Constitution

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 ...

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Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism

Thad Kousser


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

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The Search for American Political Development

Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek


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

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