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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $21.35
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73
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Publication Date: 2008-04-04
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: American politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes are often inundated with public-opinion polls. Yet for all their prominence in contemporary society, there has never been an all-inclusive, systematic study of public opinion and how it impacts the courts and electoral politics.
Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of American public opinion on the key constitutional controversies of the twentieth century, including desegregation, school prayer, abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, gay rights, assisted suicide, and national security, to name just a few. With essays focusing on each issue in-depth, Nathaniel Persily, Jack Citrin, Patrick Egan, and an established group of scholars utilize cutting edge public-opinion data to illustrate these contemporary debates, methodically examining each one and how public attitudes have shifted over time, especially in the wake of prominent Supreme Court decisions. More than just a compilation of available data, however, these essays join the "popular constitutionalism" debate between those who advocate a dominant role for courts in constitutional adjudication and those who prefer a more pluralized constitutional discourse. Each essay also vividly details the gap between the public and the Supreme Court on these hotly contested issues and analyzes how and why this divergence of opinion has grown or shrunk over the last fifty years.
Ultimately, Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy sheds light on a major yet understudied part of American politics, providing an incisive look at the crucial part played by the voice of the people on the issues that have become an indelible part of the modern-day political landscape.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $13.00
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Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730931
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Publication Date: 2007-04-30
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Reading Level: 308
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Description: "Moral values" dominated the postelection headlines in 2004. Analysts pointed to exit polls, strong turnout among evangelicals, and controversy over gay marriage as evidence that the election had been decided along religious lines. But other experts were quick to dispute this claim, arguing that views on more traditional issues such as the economy and the war in Iraq had carried the day. A Matter of Faith goes beyond the headlines to assess the role religion played in the 2004 election and explore its significance for future contests. The contributors evaluate the claim that moral values were decisive by examining the religious affiliations of ordinary voters and party elites. They also analyze the strategies used to mobilize religious conservatives, such as micro-targeting, and they examine the voting behavior of a broad range of groups, including evangelicals, African Americans, and the understudied religious left. This rich perspective on faith and politics is essential reading on a critical aspect of American politics. Contributors: John C. Green (University of Akron and Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life), James L. Guth (Furman University), D. Sunshine Hillygus (Harvard University), Laura S. Hussey (University of Baltimore), John S. Jackson (Southern Illinois University, emeritus), Scot Keeter (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press), Lyman A. Kellstedt (Wheaton College, emeritus), Geoffrey C. Layman (University of Maryland - College Park), David L. Leal (University of Texas - Austin), David C. Leege (Notre Dame, emeritus), Eric L. McDaniel (University of Texas - Austin), J. Quin Monson (Brigham Young University), Barbara Norrander (University of Arizona), Jan Norrander (University of Minnesota), J. Baxter Oliphant (Brigham Young University), Corwin E. Smidt (Calvin College), and J. Matthew Wilson (Southern Methodist University).
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $16.15
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.40917671
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: "Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face."
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $18.96
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas M. Defrank::Mark Miller
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730928
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Publication Date: 1994-11
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Reading Level: 742
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Description: The tumultuous presidential election of 1992 was a moment of historic change in America, and a special team of top Newsweek correspondents witnessed it all from the inside and won a National Magazine Award for the coverage. Here for the first time is the full story, augmented with authentic documents and on-the-scene photographs.
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Price: $22.50
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Sale: $22.50
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Manufacturer: L. Rienner Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: L. Rienner Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 321.9
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Publication Date: 2006-05-30
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Reading Level: 267
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Description: Today, electoral authoritarianism represents the most common form of political regime in the developing world - and the one we know least about. Filling in the lacuna, this new book presents cutting-edge research on the internal dynamics of electoral authoritarian regimes. Each concise, jargon-free chapter addresses a specific empirical puzzle on the basis of careful cross-national comparison. The result is a systematic, clearly structured study of the interaction between rulers and opposition parties in the central arena of struggle under electoral authoritarianism, the electoral battlefield.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $0.46
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Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Evan Thomas::The Staff of Newsweek::Staff of Newsweek
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2005-01-04
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A full year before the presidential election, four Newsweek reporters are detached from the magazine to work fulltime on getting inside the campaigns of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Because Newsweek promises not to reveal any information until after the votes are cast, the reporters receive highly unusual access. They travel with the candidates, live at their headquarters, befriend their staffs. They blend into the background, where they watch and listen.
Evan Thomas has been the writer for this project for the last three elections, and each time, he has brilliantly woven together an award-winning narrative of the campaign,based on the reporting of the Newsweek team. The goal is a rich narrative, a telling, human, and personal story of the extraordinary ordeal of running for the presidency. The characters are the candidates, their families, and their top advisers. They battle uncertainty, exhaustion, a hostile media, and each other in a high-stakes contest that can produce only one winner. The 2004 election promised to be drama of a high order, a close, tense, bitter struggle in a deeply divided country caught in a strange and hard war. Newsweek's reporters were there at the critical moments, recording the scenes that decided the outcome.
Post election, the Newsweek team will now produce an expanded version of the stories that appeared in the magazine and Thomas will write an essay on the new administration, its key players and its prospects, the tone and direction it is expected to set. The book that emerges will be a first draft of history—not rough—but knowing and deeply reported.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick J. Simonelli
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273038092
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Publication Date: 1999-05-20
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: The founder of the American Nazi party and its leader until he was murdered in 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell was one of the most significant extremist strategists and ideologists of the postwar period. His influence has only increased since his death. A powerful catalyst and innovator, Rockwell broadened his constituency beyond the core Radical Right by articulating White Power politics in terms that were subsequently appropriated by the one-time klansman David Duke. He played a major role in developing Holocaust revisionism, now an orthodoxy of the Far Right. He also helped politicize Christian Identity, America's most influential right-wing religious movement, and welded together an international organization of neo-Nazis. All of these extremist movements continue to thrive today. Frederick Simonelli's biography of this powerful and enigmatic figure draws on primary sources of extraordinary depth, including declassified FBI files and manuscripts and other materials held by Rockwell's family and associates. The first objective assessment of the American Nazi party and an authoritative study of the roots of neo-nazism, neo-fascism, and White Power extremism in postwar America, "American Fuehrer" is shocking and absorbing reading.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $7.20
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Manufacturer: Northern Illinois University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Kleppner
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Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.977311043
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Publication Date: 1985-05
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Reading Level: 313
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Description: In April 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of Chicago. His victory came at the end of a rancorous campaign that attracted national media coverage and left Chicago "a city divided against itself." Chicago Divided sensitively reconstructs the developments that led to Chicago's 1983 political season. Investigating the election and its background, Kleppner taps a formidable array of sources including newspapers, court cases, public opinion polls, and voting returns to analyze the causes and consequences of Chicago's electoral revolution.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $23.70
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Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Raymond J. La Raja
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.780973
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Publication Date: 2008-03-05
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: All democracies face the dilemma of how to pay for politics. Money fuels the campaigns that inform and mobilize voters. But private political contributions raise the specter of undue influence, or, worse, political corruption. In "Small Change", Raymond J. La Raja reviews the history of America's efforts at federal campaign finance reform and explains why they have largely failed to stem the flow of money in politics: partisans often design new reforms to give themselves electoral advantage over their rivals, rather than as a tool for combating corruption. "Small Change" suggests alternative ways of crafting reforms that actually promote fairness and democratic accountability. The book is an engaging account of campaign reform's contradictory history, and a must-read for anyone curious about the role of money in American politics.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $32.25
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324
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Publication Date: 2002-05-23
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty OECD nations. It finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but that they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. These findings lead to a discussion about the changing nature of representative democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century.
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