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  • Outside Looking In

    Lobbyists' Views on Civil Discourse in U.S. State Legislatures

    by Craig Curtis, James R. Hanni, Richard Kimball, Bradley McMillan ...
    The recent advent of gridlock and hyper-partisanship in the United States Congress has raised questions about whether similar divides are occurring in state governments, and if so, why? To find out, researchers--working in 2018 and 2019 under a National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) grant--conducted a survey of registered lobbyists and public agency legislative liaison officers in all fifty ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Foley

    The Man in the Middle

    by R. Kenton Bird, John C. Pierce ...
    Series series Congressional Leaders
    Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic representative from the traditionally Republican region of eastern Washington, served in Congress from 1964 to 1994. In 1989 he became the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives from a district west of Texas. His thirty years of experience as a Democrat representing a Republican-leaning district contributed to his strong commitment to bipartisanship and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Sanctuary Ordinances

    The Contemporary Politics of Immigrant Assimilation in America

    by Nicholas P. Lovrich, John C. Pierce, Christopher A. Simon ...
    The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal immigration ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Public Knowledge And Environmental Politics In Japan And The United States

    by John C Pierce, Nicholas P Lovrich, Taketsugu Tsurutani, Takematsu Abe ...
    This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their motivation to respond to the challenges. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U.S. West

    Tilting at Windmills?

    by Brent S. Steel, John C. Pierce ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge, demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to the development and implementation of alternative energy technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense opposition from a variety of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Democracy When the People Are Thinking

    Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

    by James S. Fishkin ...
    Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? If ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    by Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • The Swing Vote

    The Untapped Power of Independents

    by Linda Killian ...
    As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • White-Collar Government

    The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

    by Nicholas Carnes ...
    Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum

    Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges

    by Yatta Kanu ...
    From improved critical thinking to increased self-esteem and school retention, teachers and students have noted many benefits to bringing Aboriginal viewpoints into public school classrooms. In Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum, Yatta Kanu provides the first comprehensive study of how these frameworks can be effectively implemented to maximize Indigenous students' ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Why the Right Went Wrong

    Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

    by E.J. Dionne Jr. ...
    From the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and “notably fair-minded” (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP’s fracturing—from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectacle.Why the Right Went Wrong offers an “up to the moment” (The Christian Science Monitor) historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American ... Read more

    $16.99 USD