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  • A Kinder, Gentler Racism?

    The Reagan-Bush Civil Rights Legacy

    by Steven A. Shull ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 1993. One of the tests to which we subject our presidents concerns their capacity to lead, their ability to achieve their political and policy goals. This is the test of whether presidents make a difference to their institution, their government, and their country. Professor Steven A. Shull applies this test to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. His focus ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment

    An End-of-century Assessment

    by Steven A. Shull, Norman C. Thomas ...
    A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion of the issues of accountability and policy leadership. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Economics And Politics Of Industrial Policy

    The United States And Western Europe

    Edited by Steven A. Shull ...
    Industrial policy is a good example of the growing economic and political interdependency between Europe and the United States. The contributors to this volume, which compiles the proceedings of the seventh conference sponsored by the Institute for the Comparative Study of Public Policy, examine the ways in which national, and supranational in the case of the European Community, industrial ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Reviving the Strike

    How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America

    by Joe Burns ...
    If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding ... Read more

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  • Deeply Divided

    Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America

    by Doug McAdam, Karina Kloos ...
    By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Party Wars

    Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making

    by Barbara Sinclair ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Party Wars is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf now separating the two major parties developed and how today’s fierce partisan competition affects the political process and national policy.Barbara Sinclair traces the current ideological divide to changes in the Republican party in the 1970s and 1980s, including the rise of neoconservativism and the Religious Right. Because of ... Read more

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  • Obama and America's Political Future

    by Theda Skocpol, Larry M Bartels, Mickey Edwards, Suzanne Mettler ...
    Series series Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics
    Obama’s 2008 victory, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But he quickly faced skepticism from supporters and fierce opposition from Republicans. What happened? Skocpol surveys the political landscape to help us to understand Obama’s triumphs and setbacks and see where we might be headed next. ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Predicting the Presidency

    The Potential of Persuasive Leadership

    by George C. Edwards, III, III ...
    Millions of Americans—including many experienced politicians—viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White House. They could not understand why he often was unable to leverage his position and political skills to ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Overreach

    Leadership in the Obama Presidency

    by George C. Edwards, III, III ...
    How Obama overestimated the power of rhetoric and persuasion during his presidencyWhen Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy proposals. How ... Read more

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  • The Persuadable Voter

    Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns

    by D. Sunshine Hillygus, Todd G. Shields ...
    The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns. Why do candidates use such divisive appeals? Who in the electorate is persuaded by these controversial issues? And what are the consequences for American democracy? In this provocative and engaging analysis of presidential campaigns, Sunshine ... Read more

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  • The Right Talk

    How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

    by Mark A. Smith ...
    Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch--the notion that conservatives ... Read more

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