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Party Polarization in Congress by Sean M. Theriault 9780521717687
RRP: £25.99£21.99The political parties in Congress are as polarized as they have been in 100 years. This book examines more than 30 years of congressional history to understand how it is that the Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have become so divided. It finds... -
Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe: The Impact of International Institutions and Trade by Katharina Holzinger 9780521717359
RRP: £30.99£28.28Has globalization led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies of nation states have converged over the last thirty years and whether... -
Religion in an Expanding Europe by Timothy A. Byrnes 9780521676519
RRP: £36.99£33.95With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and... -
Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership by Zoltan L. Hajnal 9780521674157
RRP: £22.99£19.56Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community. By shifting the focus to the white community, this book shows that... -
Strategy on the United States Supreme Court by Saul Brenner 9780521736343
RRP: £23.99£20.37To what extent do the justices on the Supreme Court behave strategically? In Strategy on the United States Supreme Court, Saul Brenner and Joseph M. Whitmeyer investigate the answers to this question and reveal that justices are substantially less... -
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 by Lee J. Alston 9780521622103
RRP: £54.00£48.50Using institutional economics, Professors Alston and Ferrie show how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the American welfare state in the hundred years following the Civil War. It was an integral part of agricultural contracts... -
Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States by Gerda Falkner 9780521615136
RRP: £36.99£30.73What does EU law truly mean for the member states? Do they abide or don't they? This book presents the first encompassing and in-depth empirical study of the effects of 'voluntaristic' and (partly) 'soft' EU policies in all 15 member states. The authors... -
Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited by Simon Green 9780521613163
RRP: £34.99£30.94Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this... -
The American Constitution and the Debate over Originalism by Dennis J. Goldford 9780521607797
RRP: £23.99£20.37Located at the intersection of law, political science, philosophy, and literary theory, this is a work of constitutional theory that explores the nature of American constitutional interpretation through a reconsideration of the long-standing debate... -
When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media by Tim J. Groeling 9780521603072
RRP: £24.99£21.18Fostering a positive brand name is the chief benefit parties provide for their members. They do this both by coordinating their activities in the legislative process and by communicating with voters. Whereas political scientists have generally focused on... -
Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel by James D. Savage 9780521643153
RRP: £42.00£37.96Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding high quality academic science. Yet, despite the success of American science, peer review is under attack for being a biased 'good old boy' network that helps rich... -
Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes by Diana C. Mutz 9780521637268
RRP: £29.99£25.94People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the... -
Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy by Robert M. Stein 9780521595841
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book details the policy subsystems - links among members of Congress, interest groups, program beneficiaries, federal and subnational government agencies - that blanket the American political landscape. Robert Stein and Kenneth Bickers have... -
Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress by Sarah A. Binder 9780521582391
RRP: £90.00£72.17Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the US Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate,... -
Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News that's Fit to Air? by Elliot E. Slotnick 9780521576161
RRP: £25.99£19.99Beginning with the recognition that the Supreme Court is the most invisible branch of American government and the one that most Americans know the least about, this book examines the way in which television news, the primary source of the public's... -
Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research by Wendy Wagner 9780521540094
RRP: £30.99£28.28Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can be abused by special interests to intrude on the way scientists conduct research. The high stakes and... -
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Richard Franklin Bensel 9780521537865
RRP: £30.99£26.77During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes... -
European Integration and Political Conflict by Gary Marks 9780521535052
RRP: £30.99£28.28Over the past half-century, Europe has experienced the most radical reallocation of authority that has ever taken place in peace-time, yet the ideological conflicts that will emerge from this are only now becoming apparent. The editors of this 2004... -
Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information by Gregory F. Treverton 9780521533492
RRP: £26.99£22.80The world of intelligence has been completely transformed by the end of the Cold War and the onset of an age of information. Prior to the 1990s, US government intelligence had one principal target, the Soviet Union; a narrow set of 'customers', the... -
Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa by James L. Gibson 9780521517881
RRP: £54.00£48.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions by John R. Hibbing 9780521483360
RRP: £30.99£28.28This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the US Congress. Intensive focus group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the... -
Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions by John R. Hibbing 9780521482998
RRP: £56.00£50.25This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the US Congress. Intensive focus group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the... -
The Economic Realities of Political Reform: Elections and the US Senate by James L. Regens 9780521474689
RRP: £46.00£41.47A central political issue in American politics during the 1990s is the need for political campaign reform. The authors examine US Senate elections to determine the role money plays in Senate elections; their analysis indicates that the system of campaign... -
Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 by Richard Franklin Bensel 9780521391368
RRP: £120.00£98.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Interest-Group Politics in France by Frank L. Wilson 9780521335300
RRP: £90.00£72.57This book represents a comprehensive examination of interest-group politics in France. Rather than the narrow case studies usually employed to study group politics, the book focuses on the overall pattern of interaction between interest groups and... -
Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987 by David McKay 9780521320337
RRP: £90.00£72.17Presidential leadership in America can and does make a great deal of difference to what is debated and eventually legislated. At the same time presidents are obviously constrained by what is always a complex and difficult political environment. In this... -
The Limits of Judicial Independence by Tom S. Clark 9780521194884
RRP: £52.00£47.14This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a... -
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Strategy by William C. Martel 9780521177733
RRP: £37.99£32.97War demands that scholars and policy makers use victory in precise and coherent terms to communicate what the state seeks to achieve in war. The failure historically to define victory in consistent terms has contributed to confused debates when societies... -
Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in US Lawmaking, 1953-2004 by Matthew N. Beckmann 9780521162913
RRP: £23.99£20.37Today's presidents enter office having campaigned on an ambitious policy agenda, eager to see it enacted, and willing to push so that it is. The central question of presidents' legislative leadership, therefore, is not a question of resolve, it is a... -
Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and their Political Consequences by Vernon Bogdanor 9780521272827
RRP: £30.99£28.28Originally published in 1983, Democracy and Elections analyses the main electoral systems of modern democracies, and places them in their institutional and historical context. A distinguished group of contributors provide interpretations of the electoral... -
America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout, and Representation in City Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal 9780521137508
RRP: £22.99£19.56Although there is a widespread belief that uneven voter turnout leads to biased outcomes in American democracy, existing empirical tests have found few effects. By offering a systematic account of how and where turnout matters in local politics, this... -
Wars, Plots and Scandals in Post-War France by Philip M. Williams 9780521130820
RRP: £30.99£28.28This collection, first published in 1970, brings together twelve articles on French political subjects, mostly concerned either with the plots and scandals that arose out of the long struggle for decolonisation, or with the culmination of that struggle... -
Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies: Popular Theories and Observed Outcomes in Whitehall by Andrew Dunsire 9780521130752
RRP: £30.99£28.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Funding of Political Parties in Britain by K. D. Ewing 9780521124065
RRP: £30.99£28.28This study of the way in which political parties are funded examines in detail the corporate funding of the Conservative Party and trade union funding of the Labour Party. In so doing the author considers the legal implications of this activity. The... -
The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States by Jacob S. Hacker 9780521013284
RRP: £30.99£26.83The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than... -
The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion by David A. Yalof 9780521011815
RRP: £23.99£20.37In light of recent frustrations with the press over its increasingly sensationalistic coverage of the news, no liberty is more vulnerable to the vagaries of the current political climate than is 'freedom of the press'. By considering public opinion data... -
Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law by Ken I. Kersch 9780521010559
RRP: £30.99£27.17The modern jurisprudence of civil liberties and civil rights is best understood, not as the application of principles to facts, but as a product of currents of progressive reformist political thought. This book demonstrates that rights of individuals in... -
Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s by David Plotke 9780521034593
RRP: £36.99£33.95This 1996 book analyses the dramatic changes in American politics that occurred during the 1930s and 1940s - including the break-up of national Republican power, the growth of the federal government, the emergence of a new labour movement, American entry... -
A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia by Laughlin McDonald 9780521011792
RRP: £25.99£21.99From slavery to the white backlash of the 1990s, A Voting Rights Odyssey is a riveting account of the crusade for equal voting rights in Georgia. Written by a veteran civil rights lawyer the book draws upon expert reports and other court records, as well... -
Three Models of Opinion Dynamics by Mary Layton Atkinson 9781009100595
RRP: £50.00£40.09A 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...