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  • Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving

    by E. Scott Adler, John D. Wilkerson ...
    How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet the institution's long history of addressing significant societal problems - even in recent years - seems to contradict this view. Congress ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Roads to Congress 2010

    by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja, E Scott Adler, Margaret Banyan, Peter Bergerson, William Binning, Kevin Buterbaugh, Marcia L. Godwin, William K. Hall, Jeffrey Kraus, Tom Lansford, Jerry McBeath, Bob N. Roberts, Josh M. Ryan, Carl Shepro, Daniel E. Smith, Anand Edward Sohkey, Joshua Whitney, Jeffrey S. Ashley ...
    The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from throughout the country. Each entry was written by one or more experts living in the state or region ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • The Macropolitics of Congress

    Edited by E. Scott Adler, John S. Lapinski ...
    How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs?This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

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  • Game Change

    Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

    by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin ...
    The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." — The Financial Times"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the ... Read more

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  • Insane Clown President

    Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist.In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic ... Read more

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  • Renegade

    The Making of a President

    by Richard Wolffe ...
    Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Way It Works

    Inside Ottawa

    by Eddie Goldenberg ...
    The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.What did this title mean? It meant that Eddie made things happen. For example, during Paul Martin ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within

    American Politics in the Time of Trump

    by Don Watson ...
    Series Book 63 - Quarterly Essay
    In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 – and the strangest election campaign that country has seen.Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the “thicket of unreality” that is the American media. Behind this he finds a deeply fearful and divided culture. Watson considers the irresistible pull – for ... Read more

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  • The Republic (Translated by Benjamin Jowett with an Introduction by Alexander Kerr)

    by Plato ...
    Plato’s most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, “The Republic” is a fictional dialogue between Socrates and other various Athenians and foreigners which examines the meaning of justice. It is primarily from the writings of Plato that Socrates’s ideas are passed down to us. Written around 380 BC, the work is an important ... Read more

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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger ... Read more

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  • The Purple Revolution

    The Year That Changed Everything

    by Nigel Farage ...
    How did Farage persuade Reckless and Carswell to ditch the Conservatives? Would UKIP ever do a deal with another party? How have three near-death experiences shaped Farage's politics? How does Nigel feel about controversial kippers and their high-profile gaffes? Twenty-one years after its formation as a single-policy protest party, and on the eve of what promises to be one of the closest, most ... Read more

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