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  • Deadly Justice

    A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty

    by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Marty Davidson, Colin Wilson, Kaneesha Johnson, Frank Baumgartner ...
    In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Agendas and Instability in American Politics

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones ...
    When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would "become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics." That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic Interests

    The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Beth L. Leech ...
    A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Politics of Information

    Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones ...
    How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search." If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry out a thorough search, they will almost certainly find new problems—and with the definition of each new problem ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Continent in Crisis

    The U.S. Civil War in North America

    by Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Andrew L. Slap0 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Suspect Citizens

    What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub ...
    Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Dynamics of Public Opinion

    by Mary Layton Atkinson, K. Elizabeth Coggins, James A. Stimson, Frank R. Baumgartner ...
    Series series Elements in American Politics
    A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, and what the people think of it. We seek to understand a key question necessary to answer those bigger questions: How does American public opinion move over time? We posit three patterns of change over time in public opinion, depending on ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Agenda Dynamics in Spain

    by Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Frank R. Baumgartner, Anna Palau ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalonia and the Basque region, and the declining role of religion. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Comparative Policy Agendas

    Theory, Tools, Data

    Edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas

    Edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Bryan D. Jones ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences.Attention is a crucial variable in understanding modern politics. Shifts in attention have dramatic consequences for both politics and policy decisions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt ...
    Beyond Social Democracy examines the electoral decline of social democratic parties and how distinctive strategic moves might enable them to salvage different segments of their former electoral coalitions. Social democratic decline, however, does not imply the demise of basic tenets of the parties' programmatic appeals. Under the impact of novel twenty-first-century political-economic challenges, ... Read more

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  • Democratic Deficit

    Critical Citizens Revisited

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    Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on 'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies worldwide, challenging the pervasive claim that most established democracies have experienced ... Read more

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