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“daron r shaw”

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  • Battleground

    Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era

    by Daron R. Shaw, Scott L. Althaus, Costas Panagopoulos ...
    Covering the beginning of the television era to the present, Battleground provides an unprecedented look at the Electoral College strategies used by US presidential campaigns from 1952 to 2020 and what difference they make on election day. Although US presidential campaigns are among the most closely followed events in the world, academic research tends to conclude that they are much less ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Appearance of Corruption

    Testing the Supreme Court's Assumptions about Campaign Finance Reform

    by Daron R. Shaw, Brian E. Roberts, Mijeong Baek ...
    A critical analysis of the connections that the United States Supreme Court has made between campaign finance regulations and voters' behavior. The sanctity of political speech is a key element of the United States Constitution and a cornerstone of the American republic. When the Supreme Court linked political speech to campaign finance in its landmark Buckley v. Valeo (1976) decision, the modern ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Unconventional Wisdom

    Facts and Myths About American Voters

    by Karen M. Kaufmann, John R. Petrocik, Daron R. Shaw ...
    Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are standard fare among average citizens, political pundits, and even some academics. But are these conventional wisdoms--familiar to anyone who watches Sunday morning talk shows--really valid? Unconventional Wisdom offers a novel ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

    by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels ...
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    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

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  • Disproven

    My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections

    by Ken Block ...
    Many searched for evidence of voter fraud in 2020, only a few were unbiased professionals . . . and only one has written a book about his experience.If you value the integrity of our elections—or want a behind-the-scenes look at an attempt at overturning one—Disproven by Ken Block takes you out of the voting booth and into the chaos that was the attempt to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. ... Read more

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  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole ...
    Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and networking--infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of ... Read more

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  • Africa

    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Outsider in the White House

    by Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols ...
    The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidateBernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history.In this book, Sanders tells the story of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

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  • Upending American Politics

    Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance

    Edited by Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo ...
    The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending ... Read more

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  • Insecure Majorities

    Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

    by Frances E. Lee ...
    "[A] tour de force. Building upon her argument in Beyond Ideology, she adds an important wrinkle into the current divide between the parties in Congress." — Perspectives on PoliticsAs Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is ... Read more

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  • Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters

    by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler ...
    In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that ... Read more

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