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  • The Analytic History of American Politics

    by Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    U.S. political history is often told through certain perspectives. Whether that is of certain personalities, presidential elections, or political crises, the history of American politics around administrations, ideological conflicts, and pivotal moments, treating each era as distinct. But often these histories fail to compare causes and consequences across time, confusing correlation with ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Social Roots of American Politics

    A Widening Gyre?

    by Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner ...
    A novel and powerful explanation of the social roots of American politics and the powerful forces in the background. The usual approach to political conflict is to look at policy battles inside government, then trace them back to political parties and organized interests. Yet, in The Social Roots of American Politics, Regina L. Wagner and Byron E. Shafer begin at the opposite end of the causal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Eternal Bandwagon

    The Politics of Presidential Selection

    by Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates that the politics of presidential nomination has been remarkably stable in the United States since the 1830s and right through to 2020. A common bandwagon dynamic, rolling once through party organizations and now through ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The End of Southern Exceptionalism

    Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

    by Byron E. Shafer, Richard Johnston ...
    The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution.In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Long War over Party Structure

    Democratic Representation and Policy Responsiveness in American Politics

    by Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner ...
    A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper structure for political parties and the relative power that should be afforded to party professionals versus issue activists. In this book, Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner draw systematically on new data and indexes to evaluate the extent to which party structure changed from the 1950s on, and what the consequences have been for ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The American Political Pattern

    Stability and Change, 1932-2016

    by Byron E. Shafer ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of American politics at diverse points over the past eighty years, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The American Political Landscape

    by Byron E. Shafer, Richard H. Spady ...
    Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these rival camps through a merger of precise statistics and hard-won election experience, The American Political Landscape presents a full-scale analysis of U.S. electoral politics over the past quarter-century. Byron Shafer and Richard Spady explain how factors not usually considered hard data, ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • Democracy for Realists

    Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

    by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about itDemocracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Republic at Risk

    An Introduction to American Politics

    by Walter J. Stone, James A. McCann ...
    When people have the freedom to further their own personal interests in politics, the results may be disastrous. Chaos? Tyranny? Can a political system be set up to avoid these pitfalls, while still granting citizens and politicians the freedom to pursue their interests? Republic at Risk is a concise and engaging introduction to American politics. The guiding theme is the problem of self-interest ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Compulsory Voting

    For and Against

    by Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill ...
    In many democracies, voter turnout is low and getting lower. If the people choose not to govern themselves, should they be forced to do so? For Jason Brennan, compulsory voting is unjust and a petty violation of citizens' liberty. The median non-voter is less informed and rational, as well as more biased, than the median voter. According to Lisa Hill, compulsory voting is a reasonable imposition ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction

    by L. Sandy Maisel ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD