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Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. 9780521888974
RRP: £75.00£67.25There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates... -
Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic Convention by Richard Franklin Bensel 9780521888882
RRP: £90.00£72.57The 1896 Democratic National Convention simultaneously proposed a radically new trajectory for American industrial expansion, harshly repudiated its own incumbent president, and rudely overturned the party's traditional regional and social hierarchy. The... -
Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe: The Impact of International Institutions and Trade by Katharina Holzinger 9780521888813
RRP: £90.00£72.57Has 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... -
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe by Cas Mudde 9780521850810
RRP: £105.00£82.41As Europe enters a significant phase of re-integration of East and West, it faces an increasing problem with the rise of far-right political parties. Cas Mudde offers the first comprehensive and truly pan-European study of populist radical right parties... -
How Voters Decide: Information Processing in Election Campaigns by Richard R. Lau 9780521848596
RRP: £85.00£67.65This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they... -
Election Timing by Alastair Smith 9780521833639
RRP: £90.00£72.17Endogenous election timing allows leaders to schedule elections 'when the time is right'. The author proposes and tests an informational theory of endogenous election timing that explains when leaders call for elections and the consequences of their... -
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Jack Citrin 9780521828833
RRP: £85.00£67.65The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this... -
European Integration and Political Conflict by Gary Marks 9780521827799
RRP: £89.99£77.49Over 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... -
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism by Thad Kousser 9780521839853
RRP: £75.00£59.62The wisdom of term limits and professional politics has been debated since the time of Aristotle, spurring 'reforms' of legislatures in Athens, Rome, Venice, and in the US under the Articles of Confederation. This book examines recent trends in American... -
The Search for American Political Development by Karen Orren 9780521838948
RRP: £90.00£72.17In recent years, American political development has claimed the attention of a growing band of political scientists, and scholars have begun to speak of 'APD' as a subfield within the discipline. This book provides a justification for studying politics... -
The Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship by Howard Schweber 9780521824620
RRP: £90.00£72.17This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of... -
Uncertainty in American Politics by Barry C. Burden 9780521812733
RRP: £75.00£64.30This 2003 book represents an exciting intellectual meeting of researchers from diverse subfields to analyze how and why uncertainty affects American politics. It seeks to reconnect research traditions that have seldom spoken to one another. Though used... -
The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might by Daniel L. Byman 9780521809917
RRP: £90.00£72.57Successful coercion should be relatively simple for the United States. Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States is without rivals in military might, political influence, or economic strength. Yet despite the lopsided US edge in raw power,... -
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration by Carol M. Swain 9780521808866
RRP: £49.00£44.39Over the past decade, a new white nationalist movement has gained strength in America, bringing with it the potential to disrupt already fragile race relations. Eschewing violence, this movement seeks to expand its influence mainly through argument and... -
Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values by Frank N. Laird 9780521782470
RRP: £90.00£72.17Energy policies that promote new technologies and energy sources are policies for the future. They influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political and economic lives. Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and... -
Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment by Eric M. Patashnik 9780521777483
RRP: £30.99£27.40In the United States many important programs are paid from trust funds. At a time when major social insurance funds are facing insolvency, this book provided the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American... -
Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office by Jennifer L. Lawless 9780521767491
RRP: £75.00£60.59Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office explores the factors that drive political ambition at the earliest stages. Using data from a comprehensive survey of thousands of eligible candidates, Jennifer L. Lawless... -
Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America by Graeme T. Boushey 9780521762816
RRP: £90.00£76.09Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America integrates research from agenda setting and epidemiology to model factors that shape the speed and scope of public policy diffusion. Drawing on a data set of more than 130 policy innovations, the research demonstrates... -
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers by Craig Volden 9780521761529
RRP: £75.00£59.61This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of... -
Political Women and American Democracy by Christina Wolbrecht 9780521713849
RRP: £28.99£23.80What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the... -
Party Influence in Congress by Steven S. Smith 9780521703871
RRP: £28.99£23.80Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of political parties in the US Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy, electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call for... -
Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency by Archon Fung 9780521699617
RRP: £24.99£20.94Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities... -
Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy by David P. Calleo 9780521767675
RRP: £45.00£40.09The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision... -
International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960 by Azza Salama Layton 9780521669764
RRP: £25.99£19.99Despite the impressive volume of literature on the civil rights movement and US race policies, the connection between American foreign policy during World War II and the postwar years and America's race policy remains largely unexplored. Focusing on this... -
German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy by Jeffrey Anderson 9780521643559
RRP: £90.00£72.17German Unification and the Union of Europe discusses some of the most interesting questions in the study of comparative politics and international relations. The book studies the sources of continuity and change in German policy toward the European... -
Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch by Matthew J. Dickinson 9780521653954
RRP: £25.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Institutions of Modern Spain: A Political and Economic Guide by Michael T. Newton 9780521573481
RRP: £105.00£82.41This book provides a comprehensive guide to Spain's major political and economic institutions, analysing their role, structure and functions, as well as their relationship to each other. Set against the background of Spain's consolidation as a young... -
Abortion Politics in Congress: Strategic Incrementalism and Policy Change by Scott H. Ainsworth 9780521515818
RRP: £65.00£57.67This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and... -
The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns by Tracy Sulkin 9780521514491
RRP: £75.00£60.59Do members of Congress follow through on the appeals they make in campaigns? The answer to this question lies at the heart of assessments of democratic legitimacy. This study demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional wisdom that candidates' appeals... -
Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy by Robert M. Stein 9780521482981
RRP: £75.00£59.62This 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... -
Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign by R. Robert Huckfeldt 9780521452984
RRP: £104.00£93.23Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another... -
Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992 by Saul Brenner 9780521451888
RRP: £90.00£72.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932 by Gerald Berk 9780521425964
RRP: £90.00£76.09This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the United States. Whereas most scholars cast the politics of industrialization in the progressive era as a narrow choice between breaking up and regulating the... -
Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause by Lawrence S. Rothenberg 9780521425773
RRP: £28.99£21.89Lawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause. In developing what might be called a membership theory, he asks such... -
Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s by David Plotke 9780521420594
RRP: £105.00£82.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States by Robert S. Erikson 9780521413497
RRP: £90.00£72.57The importance of public opinion in the determination of public policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely... -
Governance of the American Economy by John L. Campbell 9780521402576
RRP: £120.00£98.15In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these... -
Regulation through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program by James T. Hamilton 9780521389891
RRP: £34.99£27.40Information provision is increasingly being used as a regulatory tool. The US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program required facilities that handle threshold amounts of specific chemicals to report yearly their releases... -
Budget Reform Politics: The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House of Representatives, 1865-1921 by Charles H. Stewart 9780521354721
RRP: £109.00£97.75In this 1989 book Charles Stewart analyses the development of the budgetary process in the House of Representatives between 1865 and 1921. The period began with the creation of the House Appropriations Committee and ended with the passage of the... -
Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France by Albert Mabileau 9780521345767
RRP: £90.00£72.17Local participation can and does influence the political process. Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France, first published in 1990, provides a unique comparative study of the involvement of average citizens in local politics and government...