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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $16.93
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Manufacturer: Stoddart
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Galbraith Schlisinger
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Publisher: Stoddart
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273609
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Publication Date: 1992-07
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Reading Level: 220
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $19.93
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Zoltan L. Hajnal
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.208996073
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Publication Date: 2006-12-25
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Reading Level: 230
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Description: Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community. By shifting the focus to the white community, this book shows that black representation can have a profound impact. Utilizing national public opinion surveys, data on voting patterns in large American cities, and in-depth studies of Los Angeles and Chicago, Zoltan Hajnal demonstrates that under most black mayors there is real, positive change in the white vote and in the racial attitudes of white residents. This change occurs because black incumbency provides concrete information that disproves the fears and expectations of many white residents. These findings not only highlight the importance of black representation; they also demonstrate the critical role that information can play in racial politics to the point where black representation can profoundly alter white views and white votes.
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: Chatham House Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Byron E. Shafer
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Publisher: Chatham House Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273009045
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Publication Date: 1998-07
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Reading Level: 278
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Description: Asking whether, to what extent, and in what ways parties and partisanship have contributed to political and social change, Shafer leads a panel of distinguished scholars who approach the postwar political story of the US by focusing on party officeholders, party factions, party elites, party organizations, mass partisanship and partisan rules.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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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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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.70973
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Publication Date: 2006-04-03
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: Do political campaign events determine election winners? For too long, political scientists argued that issues, not campaigns, determined whether politicians won or lost. Journalists and party activists, on the other hand, devoted their energy to refining candidates' public images, through events, advertisements and media appearances. "Capturing Campaign Effects" brings together an outstanding list of experts in the emerging field of campaign effects to study the influence of campaigns on our political culture. The result is a broad exploration of various campaign factors - debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls - and their effects - priming, learning, and persuasion; as well as an impressive survey of techniques for the collection and analysis of campaign data. "Capturing Campaign Effects" examines different kinds of campaigns in the US and abroad, and presents strong evidence for significant campaign effects. "Capturing Campaign Effects" seeks to bring the study of campaigns into the mainstream. The contributors include many of the world's leading students of public opinion and elections. For those interested in studying elections, this book provides the broadest and most in-depth compendium of what we know and how we can learn more about the impacts of political campaigns. The volume is a must-read for graduate students and scholars in the field, and an appealing introduction for upper-level undergraduates and interested generalists.
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Price: $72.20
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Sale: $11.22
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Manufacturer: Longman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Larry J. Sabato::Bruce Larson
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Publisher: Longman
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273
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Publication Date: 2001-07-26
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The long-awaited revision of Larry Sabato's classic work on political parties in the U.S., The Party's Just Begun has been brought completely up-to-date and features a new co-author, Bruce Larson. Analysis of Election 2000 and the parties' roles; new analysis of the Reform Party and its candidates; new polling data from John McLaughlin and Associates; new discussion of campaign finance laws and reform efforts; and new discussion of the effects of debacles like the impeachment of President Clinton on the public's opinion of the parties. For those interested in American politics.
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Price: $31.95
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Sale: $24.76
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ron Hayduk
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.620869120973
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Publication Date: 2006-01-13
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held public office such as alderman, coroner, and school board member. Globally, over forty countries on nearly every continent permit voting by noncitizens. Legal immigrants, or resident aliens, pay taxes, own businesses and homes, send their children to public schools, and can be drafted or serve in the military, yet proposals to grant them voting rights are often met with great resistance. But, in a country where "no taxation without representation" was once a rallying cry for revolution, such a proposition may not, after all, be so outlandish.
Democracy for All examines the politics and practices of noncitizen voting in the United States, chronicling the rise and fall - and re-emergence - of immigrant voting in the U.S. In addition to making the case for noncitizen voting, this book takes a close look at the politics of and actors in recent campaigns that successfully reestablished noncitizen voting, others that failed, and ones that are currently underway. Democracy for All explores the prospects for a truly universal suffrage in America.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.14
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tinsley E. Yarbrough
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 342.756053
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Publication Date: 2002-10
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Through much of the 1990s, a newly hatched snake wreaked political havoc in the South. When North Carolina gained a seat in Congress following the 1990 census, it sought to rectify a long-standing failure to represent African American voters by creating, under federal pressure, two "majority-minority" voting districts. One of these snaked along Interstate 85 for nearly two hundred miles -- not much wider than the road itself in some places -- and was ridiculed by many as one of the least compact legislative districts ever proposed. From 1993 to 2001, three intertwined cases went before the Supreme Court that decided how far a state could go in establishing voting districts along racial lines. Noted Supreme Court biographer Tinsley Yarbrough examines these closely linked landmark cases to show how the Court addressed the constitutionality of redistricting within the volatile contexts of civil rights and partisan politics. A suit was first filed by Duke University law professor Robinson Everett, a liberal who loathed discrimination but considered racially motivated redistricting a clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Yarbrough tells how Everett enlisted associates as plaintiffs and went on to win two Supreme Court victories in Shaw v. Reno (1993) and Shaw v. Hunt (1996) -- both by 5-4 decisions. Following the creation of another "flawed" redistricting plan, he rounded up a new set of plaintiffs to take the battle back to the Supreme Court. But this time, in Easley v. Cromartie -- on the swing vote of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- the 5-4 vote went against him. Yarbrough shows the significant impact these cases have had on election law and thefascinating interplay of law, politics, and human conflict that the dispute generated. Drawing heavily on court records and on interviews with attorneys on both sides of the litigation, he relates a complex and intriguing tale about these protracted struggles. Race and Redistricting spotlights efforts to "racially engineer" voting districts in an effort to achieve fair representation. By examining one state's efforts to confront such dilemmas, it helps readers better understand future disputes over race and politics, as well as the ongoing debates over our "color-blind" constitution.
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Price: $46.95
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Sale: $36.95
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Manufacturer: CQ Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273
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Publication Date: 2001-01
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Reading Level: 292
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Description: Powerful cross-currents of both decline and resurgence have been affecting American political parties over the past several decades. Is the era of decline that began in the late 1960s over? Are the parties in a new era of rebuilding? In what direction are the parties headed? American Political Parties explores these questions in language that is accessible to a wide audience -including students, researchers, and interested citizens seeking a broad overview of current "state of the art" thinking about the U.S. parties. This collection of original research presents both historical and contemporary material on the changing U.S. political parties. It brings together a wide variety of views and presents a balanced portrait of the parties - both their continuing weaknesses and their signs of revitalization.
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Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jules Witcover
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Publisher: William Morrow & Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730923
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Publication Date: 1988-05
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Reading Level: 365
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Price: $41.00
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Sale: $27.51
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen P. Nicholson
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2005-02-14
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballot propositions prime voting decisions for presidential, gubernatorial, Senate, House, and state legislative races. As a readily accessible source of information, the issues raised by ballot propositions may have a spillover effect on elections and ultimately define the meaning of myriad contests. Nicholson examines issues that appear on the ballot alongside candidates in the form of direct legislation. Found in all fifty states, but most abundant in those states that feature citizen-initiated ballot propositions, direct legislation represents a large and growing source of agenda issues. Looking at direct legislation issues such as abortion, taxes, environmental regulation, the nuclear freeze, illegal immigration, and affirmative action, Nicholson finds that these topics shaped voters' choices of candidates even if the issues were not featured in a particular contest or were not relevant to the job responsibilities of a particular office. He concludes that the agendas established by ballot propositions have a far greater effect in priming voters than is commonly recognized, and indeed, that the strategic use of initiatives and referenda by political elites potentially thwarts the will of the people.
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