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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.30
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Pietrusza
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Edition: illustrated edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-04-07
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: The presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents--Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt--jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women won the vote. Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertising, and results broadcast on radio. America had become an urban nation: Automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy. 1920 paints a vivid portrait of America, beset by the Red Scare, jailed dissidents, Prohibition, smoke-filled rooms, bomb-throwing terrorists, and the Klan, gingerly crossing modernity's threshold.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $4.11
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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: Andrew Gumbel
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Publisher: Nation Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2005-07-10
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The 2000 presidential election meltdown and the more recent controversy about computer voting machines did not come out of the blue. Steal This Vote tells the fraught but very colorful history of electoral malfeasance in the United States. It is a tale of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, cast more than once, assigned to dead people and pets, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated all the way to the Supreme Court. (No wonder America has the lowest voter participation rate of any Western democracy!) Andrew Gumbel—whose work on the new electronic voting fraud has been praised by Gore Vidal and Paul Krugman, and has won a Project Censored Award—shows that, for all the idealism about American democracy, free and fair elections have been the exception, not the rule. In fact, Gumbel suggests that Tammany Hall, shrouded as it is in moral odium, might have been a fairer system than we have today, because ostensibly positive developments like the secret ballot have been used to squash voting rights ever since.
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $17.99
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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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Author: William H. Flanigan::Nancy H. Zingale
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Edition: 11
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 2005-12-15
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Reading Level: 246
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Description: In this new edition, Flanigan and Zingale continue their outstanding analytical overview of the political behavior of the American voter. The 2004 elections demonstrated, once again, the capacity of the electorate to surprise and confound political pundits, public opinion analysts, and even academics. The surprise not only stems from the closeness of the contests, but also from the country's apparent partisan polarization, geographic division, and social cleavages. Incorporating the results of the 2004 presidential and congressional races, the authors continue to ask questions that get at the core of voters' political behavior and present their findings and analysis within historical context: Who votes and why? Are Americans committed to upholding basic democratic values? How does partisanship affect political behavior? How do economic and social factors influence individuals' politics and choices? Updated throughout, the authors discuss the implications of homeland security and the war on terror on the electorate and pay increased attention to polarization and ideology, as well as presenting and exploring new data. Additionally, their chapter on political culture is now centered on the idea of electoral democracy. Utilizing the best time-series data available, Flanigan and Zingale reliably provide students with a rich, broad survey of elections and the changes that have occurred in American political behavior over the past 50 years.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $17.79
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles W. Calhoun
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.85
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Publication Date: 2008-11-04
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Reading Level: 241
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Description: During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. Although they faced a choice between two uncharismatic candidates--Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison and Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland--voters took intense interest in the issues they espoused. And though Harrison became one of only four candidates to win the presidency while losing the popular vote, the lasting significance of the election was its foreshadowing of both the modern campaign and the modern presidency. Charles W. Calhoun shows how this presidential contest not only exemplified Gilded Age politics but also marked a major shift from divisive sectional rhetoric to an emphasis on voters' economic concerns. Calhoun first explores Cleveland's rise to the presidency and explains why he turned to economic issues, especially tariff reduction, in framing his bid for reelection. He then provides a detailed analysis of the raucous Republican national convention and describes Harrison's effective front porch campaign, in which he proclaimed his views almost daily to visiting voters and reporters. Calhoun also explores the role of party organizations, business interests, labor, women, African Americans, and third parties in the campaign; discusses alleged fraud in the election; and analyzes the Democrats' suppression of black votes in the South. The 1888 campaign marked an important phase in the evolution of American political culture and augured significant innovations in American politics and governance. The Republicans' performance, in particular, reflected the party's future winning strategies: emphasis on economic development, personal participation by the presidential candidate, a well-financed organization, and coordination with beneficiaries of the party's agenda. Harrison set important precedents for campaigning and then, once in office, fashioned new leadership strategies and governing techniques--emphasizing legislative intervention, extensive travel, and a focus on foreign affairs--that would become the stock-in-trade of later presidents. His Republican successors built upon these transformations, making the GOP the majority party for a generation and putting the presidency at the center of American governance--where it has remained ever since. This book is part of the American Presidential Elections series.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $17.06
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marty Cohen::David Karol::Hans Noel::John Zaller
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.273015
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box.
Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Samuel L. Popkin
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973
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Publication Date: 1994-06-15
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Reading Level: 332
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Description: The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on insights from economics and cognitive psychology, he convincingly demonstrates that, as trivial as campaigns often appear, they provide voters with a surprising amount of information on a candidate's views and skills. For all their shortcomings, campaigns do matter.
"If you're preparing to run a presidential campaign, and only have time to read one book, make sure to read Sam Popkin's The Reasoning Voter. If you have time to read two books, read The Reasoning Voter twice."—James Carville, Senior Stategist, Clinton/Gore '92
"A fresh and subtle analysis of voter behavior."—Thomas Byrne Edsall, New York Review of Books
"Professor Popkin has brought V.O. Key's contention that voters are rational into the media age. This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens. The reality, he shows, is both more complex and more hopeful than that."—David S. Broder, The Washington Post
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $16.34
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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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Author: Cliff Zukin::Scott Keeter::Molly Andolina::Krista Jenkins::Michael X. Delli Carpini
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.04208420973
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Publication Date: 2006-05-18
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and the authors' own primary research, they conclude that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in their communities.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: M. Evans and Company, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ronald A. Faucheux
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Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.70973
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Publication Date: 2003-11-25
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Reading Level: 674
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Description: This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading pros in the industry.
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.27327
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Publication Date: 2002-01-09
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Reading Level: 266
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Description: Who were the Progressives? In the first two decades of the twentieth century, a diverse array of Americans sought solutions to the social problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. Because they did not recognize themselves as a cohesive group — indeed, the description "Progressive" only developed late in the era — it has fallen to historians to define Progressivism and its participants as belonging to a distinct period. The 8 articles included in this volume explore who participated in the social movements considered Progressive, what their goals were, what tactics they used, and the degree to which their activity was revolutionary. Viewing the Progressive era as the precursor to the activist state that developed during World War I and more fully during the Depression, the book explores the civic imagination of a remarkable group of reformers who sought to change their society creatively, completely, and peacefully.
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Price: $53.95
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Sale: $12.50
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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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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.40973
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Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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Reading Level: 410
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Description: With Congress more partisan than ever, the White House eager to mobilize group support, the appropriations process in flux, and important interest group litigation in the courts, this volume confirms that navigating the complex world of inside-the-beltway politics is especially tricky. For interest groups, the name of the game is access. The Interest Group Connection's twenty chapters show how organized interests gain that access in Washington. Brief and accessible readings explore the connections between lobbyists' influence and American policymaking institutions and processes, as well as the crucial role interest groups play in organizing constituencies, protecting their rights, and giving them entrée into the political process. Given the current environment--new campaign finance laws, the prevalence of "527" committees, and a near-even electoral environment--the second edition provides an inside look at a changed political world.
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