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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $40.00
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Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jean Baker
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273609034
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Publication Date: 1998-01-01
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Reading Level: 367
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Description: Affairs of the party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-centruy America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democats apart from members of other policial organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism conveyed most strikingly through minstrelsy. Finally, Baker studies the neglected subject of partisan behavior, concentrating on the significance of parades, voting, and other rituals. In Affairs of Party, Jean Baker brings together the three basic components of a political culture- education, thought, and behavior- and provides an understanding of the collective values of Northern Democrats and an insight into the elusive meaning of party experience. In her new preface, Professor Baker places her book in the context of both recent scholarship and recent political and cultural developments.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $7.06
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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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Author: Stephen Macedo
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.0420973
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Publication Date: 2005-08-15
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Reading Level: 228
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Description: All is not well in American civic life. Citizen participation is too infrequent, too inconsistent, too unequal, and too ill informed. Democracy at Risk not only reveals the dangers of civic disengagement, but also diagnoses the causes and suggests that there may be cures. This important book explores the problem of Americans’ decreasing involvement in their own public affairs. It argues that we should not simply blame citizens for this sorry state. Much of the responsibility lies with our ill-designed political system, which tends to dampen involvement, sharpen participatory disparities between groups, and discourage serious attention to political campaigns and policy discussion. In Democracy at Risk, a team of leading political scientists performs three essential tasks: *They document recent trends in civic engagement. *They show how these trends have been shaped by the design of political institutions and public policies. *They provide recommendations on how to improve the quality, amount, and distribution of civic engagement. Democracy at Risk focuses on three key factors influencing public participation: the electoral process, including political campaigns and subsequent elections; the American metropolis, including demographic changes and evolving development patterns; and the critical role of nonprofit organizations, voluntary associations, and the philanthropy that helps keep them growing. Undertaken with the support of the American Political Science Association, the book tests the proposition that scholarship can provide useful insights on the state of our democratic life. It charts a course for reinvigorating civic participation in the world’s most powerful democracy. The authors: Stephen Macedo (Princeton University), Yvette Alex-Assensoh (Indiana University), Jeffrey M. Berry (Tufts), Michael Brintnall (American Political Science Association), David E. Campbell (Notre Dame), Luis Ricardo Fraga (Stanford), Archon Fung (Harvard), William A. Galston (University of Maryland), Christopher F. Karpowitz (Princeton), Margaret Levi (University of Washington), Meira Levinson (Radcliffe Institute), Keena Lipsitz (California—Berkeley), Richard G. Niemi (University of Rochester), Robert D. Putnam (Harvard), Wendy M. Rahn (University of Minnesota), Rob Reich (Stanford), Robert R. Rodgers (Princeton), Todd Swanstrom (Saint Louis University), and Katherine Cramer Walsh (University of Wisconsin).
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $18.45
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shaun Casey
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.10973
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Publication Date: 2009-01-23
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of, and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House.
In The Making of a Catholic President, Shaun Casey tells the fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the "religion question" from a liability into an asset, making him the first (and still only) Catholic president. Drawing on extensive archival research, including many never-before-seen documents, Casey takes us inside the campaign to show Kennedy's chief advisors--Ted Sorensen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Archibald Cox--grappling with the staunch opposition to the candidate's Catholicism. Casey also reveals, for the first time, many of the Nixon campaign's efforts to tap in to anti-Catholic sentiment, with the aid of Billy Graham and the National Association of Evangelicals, among others. The alliance between conservative Protestants and the Nixon campaign, he shows, laid the groundwork for the rise of the Religious Right. This book will shed light on one of the most talked-about elections in American history, as well as on the vexed relationship between religion and politics more generally.
With clear relevance to our own political situation--where politicians' religious beliefs seem more important and more volatile than ever--The Making of a Catholic President offers rare insights into one of the most extraordinary presidential campaigns in American history.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $22.45
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William G. Mayer
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Edition: 2008
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.27315
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Publication Date: 2007-08-28
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Reading Level: 246
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Description: This book present a broad overview of the presidential nomination process through a detailed examination of some of its most significant components; and to showcase some of the most interesting work now being done on the politics of presidential selection.
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Price: $85.20
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Sale: $63.90
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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: David Paletz
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Publisher: Longman
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 302.230973
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Publication Date: 2001-08-05
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Praised for its strong research base, engaging writing style and inclusion of popular culture, the Second Edition comprehensively examines media and American politics with new discussion on the Internet, Election 2000, and important trends in the field. Includes examples and discussions of Election 2000. Extensive Internet discussions have been added to 13 of the 15 chapters. A comprehensive analysis of the media's effects on public policy is included. Thoroughly discusses neglected topics such as the police, pornography, terrorism and violence. For those interested in media and politics.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Century Foundation Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Cornfield
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Publisher: Century Foundation Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.702854678
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Publication Date: 2004-03
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: The popularization of the Internet has shepherded in a revolution in business and personal communication. But how has online technology been used in mainstream American politics? Here, Michael Cornfield provides a comprehensive guide to how the Internet has been used in political campaigns. He shows, for example, how candidates such as George W. Bush and John McCain in 2000 - as well as political action committees and the media - struggled to figure out how to fit the Internet into their ongoing operations. Through a series of cases, he examines how candidates use the Web as a campaign tool and as a fund-raising mechanism and how voters use the Internet to become more knowledgable. He finds that while many political pundits have argued that the Internet can be a revolutionary force in politics, citizens and politicians alike have yet to find innovative uses that go beyond conventional political operations.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Herbert Croly
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.630973
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Publication Date: 1998-01-01
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Reading Level: 437
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Description: Croly explains the requirements for a genuin ely popular system of representative government. Although th is text was written in 1914, the intellectual structure of P rogressive Democracy remains largely intact within the liber al-progressive tradition. '
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Nation Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David W. Moore
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Publisher: Nation Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730929
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Publication Date: 2006-09-27
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Reading Level: 210
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Description: This is the inside story of how Jeb Bush persuaded the Fox network to call the presidential election for his brother George W. Bush on Election Night 2000. It was one phone call to Fox — the details of which are revealed in this book for the first time — that propelled George W. Bush into leading position for 43rd president of the United States. Even though the erroneous statement had to be retracted within two hours, the damage done by this false call to Al Gore's chances of winning the election were incalculable. David Moore, at the time senior editor for the Gallup Poll, makes the plausible and alarming case that, had Fox not made this miscall, the resulting political environment would have been less biased in favor of Bush, and that Al Gore could have won. On Election Night in 2000, Moore was with the exit poll "decision team" of CBS and CNN, taking notes on how election races were called, and miscalled, around the country — including the two miscalls and two rescissions in Florida. Prior to joining Gallup in 1993, Moore was founder and director of the Survey Center at the University of New Hampshire.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.49
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Manufacturer: AEI Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John C. Fortier::Akhil Amar::Vikram Amar::Martin Diamond::Norman Ornstein
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Publisher: AEI Press
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.63
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Publication Date: 2004-10-25
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Reading Level: 102
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Description: The extraordinary presidential election contest in 2000 raised new issues about the electoral process. In the third edition of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, leading constitutional, political, and legal scholars use examples from that controversial election and other disputed elections to explain how the electoral college works. The new edition of this popular guide provides a short history of contested elections, including a fresh essay on the 2000 election. It features all-new essays arguing for and against the electoral college, as well as appendixes that are updated and expanded to include electoral college and popular vote totals from past presidential elections. An added section concentrates on the period between Election Day in November and the casting of votes by electors in December. After the People Vote is the only book of its kind that is keyed to the specific dates between Election Day and the inauguration, which allows the reader to focus on the key procedural issues at each juncture of the election. After the People Vote is a handbook for students, scholars, journalists, policymakers, political scientists, lawyers, and general readers interested in understanding the workings of the electoral college and other post–Election Day election processes. It explains: how disputed presidential elections are resolved;
why we have an electoral college;
how electors are selected and bound;
what the constitutional provisions are for selecting a president;
what the statutory provisions are for selecting a president;
how consistent state recount procedures are;
why it is important for states to certify their election results by a date before the electors cast their votes;
what the presidential succession process is;
what the interactions of the Constitution, federal, and state statutes are; and
what the party and parliamentary rules are.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $1.43
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kim Chernin
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.27375092
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Publication Date: 1994-05
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Reading Level: 356
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Description: The triumphant story of Rose Chernin, Russian immigrant and Old Left activist, is narrated by her daughter in this riveting memoir of conflict and reconciliation between generations.
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