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  • Financing the 2020 Election

    Edición de Molly E. Reynolds, John J. Green ...
    Much has changed in the sixty years since the 1960 election, but every four years, readers have been able to count on a single volume to provide a detailed examination of federal campaign finance. Financing the 2020 Election is the latest in this series, providing a full picture of raising and spending by campaigns, parties, and outside actors—all in an election cycle both disrupted and shaped by ... Leer más

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  • Exceptions to the Rule

    The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate

    Special rules enable the Senate to act despite the filibuster. Sometimes.Most people believe that, in today's partisan environment, the filibuster prevents the Senate from acting on all but the least controversial matters. But this is not exactly correct. In fact, the Senate since the 1970s has created a series of special rules-described by Molly Reynolds as majoritarian exceptions”-that limit ... Leer más

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  • Common Sense

    de Thomas Paine ...
    First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great Britain.Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." ... Leer más

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  • The Parties Versus the People

    How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

    "An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers' worst nightmare" ( The Daily Beast).America's political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes.As a former congressman, Mickey ... Leer más

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  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    de Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Leer más

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  • Primary Politics

    Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates

    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Leer más

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  • Saving Congress from Itself

    Emancipating the States and Empowering Their People

    Saving Congress from Itself proposes a single reform: eliminate all federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments. This action would reduce federal spending by over $600 billion a year and have a profound effect on how we govern ourselves. The proliferation of federal grants-in-aid programs is of recent vintage: only about 100 such grants existed before Lyndon Johnson took office, and now ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Namibia

    The Trials of Independence

    Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scene, effectively making Namibia a de facto one-party state dominated by the first 'struggle generation'. While those in power declare their support for a free, fair, and just ... Leer más

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  • Political Negotiation

    A Handbook

    Polarization. Partisanship. Rancor. Character assassinations. Government shutdowns. Why can't our elected officials just get along and do their jobs?The United States was once seen as a land of broad consensus and pragmatic politics. Sharp ideological differences were largely absent. But today politics in America is dominated by intense party polarization and limited agreement among legislative ... Leer más

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  • Progressivism

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    de Walter Nugent ...
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    After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major ... Leer más

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  • Party Wars

    Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments

    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments.The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated ... Leer más

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