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Author | : Lawrence C. Dodd |
Publisher | : CQ-Roll Call Group Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This collection of 17 original essays surveys all major aspects of American politics, from political participation to institutional processes to public policymaking. This book identifies recurring political themes -- social conduct and conflict; issues, candidates, and elections; policy agendas; and institutional politics -- and asks if politicians of the 1990s can bring stability and coherence to the changing U.S. political system. To facilitate understanding of contemporary American politics, the role of ideas and issue agendas in shaping policy direction and governing processes is covered.
Author | : Lucius Jefferson Barker |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780887387449 |
The official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, this annual publication includes significant scholarly research reflecting the diverse interests of scholars from various backgrounds who use a variety of models, approaches, and methodologies. What unites the organization, and this annual publication, is its focus on politics and policies that advantage or disadvantage groups by reasons of race, ethnicity, sex, or other such factors. The research itself may be done in a variety of contexts and settings. This premier volume includes five feature articles and two special symposia. In addition, the publication includes bibliographical essays on politics and women, American Indians, Chicanos, and Blacks, as well as an assessment of recent books on Jesse Jackson. Contents: Linda Faye Williams, "Optimistic Polls and Gloomy Realities: The Resurgence of Racism;" Robert Salisbury, "Political Movements in American Politics;" Twiley W. Barker and Michael Combs, "In Quest of Doctrines and Votes: The Rehncjuist Court's First Year;" Symposium 1: Theodore Lowi, Francis Rourke, Matthew Holden, Jr., and Ernest Wilson, "The Iran-Contra Affair: Long-Term Implications for American Politics"; Symposium 2: Walter Miles, Barbara Luck Graham, Lawrence Baum, William Daniels, and Augustus Jones, "Black Americans and the Constitution: A Bicentennial Assessment"; Bibliographical Essays: Liane Kosaki, "Women in Politics," Joyotpaul Chaudhuri, "Politics of American Indians," John Garcia, "Chicano Politics," Hanes Walton, "Black Politics"; Book Review Forum: William Nelson and William Crotty, "Jesse Jackson and Presidential Politics."
Author | : David A. Moss |
Publisher | : The Tobin Project |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0982478801 |
As an experiment in reconnecting academia to the broader democracy, this work is designed to invigorate public policy debate by rededicating academic work to the pursuit of solutions to society's great problems.
Author | : Alan Tully |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421436000 |
Originally published in 1994. In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history—New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America. Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters—from a new perspective—the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the pathbreaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts—integral to an emerging liberal democratic order—were rooted in oligarchical political practice. "A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth."—Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.
Author | : Stephen R. Ortiz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-30 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780813061436 |
An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military
Author | : Michael Malice |
Publisher | : All Points Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1250154677 |
The definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus. What do internet trolls, economic populists, white nationalists, techno-anarchists and Alex Jones have in common? Nothing, except for an unremitting hatred of evangelical progressivism and the so-called “Cathedral” from whence it pours forth. Contrary to the dissembling explanations from the corporate press, this movement did not emerge overnight—nor are its varied subgroups in any sense interchangeable with one another. As united by their opposition as they are divided by their goals, the members of the New Right are willfully suspicious of those in the mainstream who would seek to tell their story. Fortunately, author Michael Malice was there from the very inception, and in The New Right recounts their tale from the beginning. Malice provides an authoritative and unbiased portrait of the New Right as a movement of ideas—ideas that he traces to surprisingly diverse ideological roots. From the heterodox right wing of the 1940s to the Buchanan/Rothbard alliance of 1992 and all the way through to what he witnessed personally in Charlottesville, The New Right is a thorough firsthand accounting of the concepts, characters and chronology of this widely misunderstood sociopolitical phenomenon. Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required reading for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture.
Author | : Alan S. Gerber |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815731221 |
The U.S. Constitution calls on the government to "promote the general welfare." In this provocative and innovative book, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task. The first section of the book analyzes government performance in the areas of health, transportation, housing, and education, suggesting why suboptimal policies often prevail. The second set of chapters examines two novel and sometimes controversial tools that can be used to improve policy design: information markets and laboratory experiments. Finally, the third part of the book asks how three key institutions—Congress, the party system, and federalism—affect government's ability to solve important social problems. These chapters also raise the disturbing possibility that recent political developments have contributed to a decline in governmental problem-solving activity. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that opportunities to promote the common good are frequently missed in modern American government. But the book also carries a more hopeful message. By identifying possible solutions to the problems created by weak incentives, poor information, and inadequate institutional capacity, Promoting the General Welfare shows how government performance can be improved. Contributors include Eugene Bardach (University of California-Berkeley), Sarah Binder (Brookings Institution and George Washington University), Morris P. Fiorina (Stanford University), Jay P. Greene (University of Arkansas), Robin Hanson (George Mason University), Charles A. Holt (University of Virginia), David R. Mayhew (Yale University), Edgar O. Olsen (University of Virginia), Mark Carl Rom (Georgetown University), Roberta Romano (Yale Law School), William M. Shobe (University of Virginia), Angela M. Smith (University of Virginia), Aidan R. Vining (Simon Fraser University), David L. Weimer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Clifford Winston (Brook
Author | : Mark A. Raider |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781684580538 |
Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students--a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.
Author | : William Benton Whisenhunt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317425146 |
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316516369 |
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.