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Comparative Legislative Studies eBook Series

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  • Congressional Committee Chairmen

    Three Who Made an Evolution

    Series series Comparative Legislative Studies
    Congress does most of its work in committee, and no understanding of that body can be complete without an analysis of its committees and those who shape them. Andrée Reeves now offers a rare glimpse into the workings of committee chairmanship over a span of thirty-three years-how three chairmen operated and how they influenced their committee and its impact.As Reeves demonstrates, the chair is the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    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

    $16.99 USD

  • History Teaches Us to Resist

    How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

    Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spoiled Rotten

    How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

    by Jay Cost ...
    A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

    A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the mediaBetween November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the most transformative agenda in American political history since the New Deal, one ... Read more

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  • 41

    Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush

    Series series Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
    Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas and John Tower. Bush has said that to understand the history of his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Lost Majority

    Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs—and Who Will Take It

    by Sean Trende ...
    In today's fraught political climate, one thing is indisputable: the dream of the emerging Democratic majority is dead. How did the Democrats, who seemed unstoppable only two short years ago, lose their momentum so quickly, and what does it mean for the future of our two-party system? Here, RealClearPolitics senior analyst Sean Trende explores the underlying weaknesses of the Democratic promise of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Defending the Filibuster

    The Soul of the Senate

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This award-winning study of today's filibuster debate provides a historical overview of Senate rules and an updated analysis of recent controversies.In an age of increasingly divided partisan politics, many argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Voter Suppression

    Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote

    by Tova Wang ...
    Series series A Century Foundation Book
    The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • And Justice for All

    This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential chapter in American history from a distinguished historian”—Nell Painter), tells of the commission ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Emerging Democratic Majority

    **ONE OF *THE ECONOMIST'*S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARDPolitical experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Isn't Al Gore President?

    A View of the Millenium Election from 2004

    The book is the summary of the major circumstances contributing to Al Gore's loss in 2000, derived from books and articles intended for the non-academic reader. Topics discussed are the electoral college, voter roll purging in Florida, Ralph Nader's candidacy, ballot design in Palm Beach and Duval Counties and the recount in Palm Beach County, the decision of the Bush campaign to obstruct the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD