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Unlike texts that overwhelm with irrelevant details, Kollman gives students a simple framework, consistently applied: politics is about collective dilemmas and the institutions that solve them. How can 535 members of Congress get anything done? The...

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The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The judiciary in the United States has been subject in recent years to increasingly vocal, aggressive criticism by media members, activists, and public officials at the federal, state, and local level. This collection probes whether these attacks as well...

The fifth edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The news media are often presumed to be a fourth estate, or fourth branch of government, serving as a check on the other three. In Uncertain Guardians, political scientist Bartholomew Sparrow argues that this is a mistaken notion. Instead, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393630930Author William T BiancoPage Count 768Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1656g

This timely book explores the development of the European Social Model and questions whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision and in the creation of workers' rights and employment...

Despite achieving monumental reforms in the United States such as the eight-hour workday, a federal minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, organized labor's record on much of its agenda has been mixed. Tracy Roof's sweeping examination of...

Despite achieving monumental reforms in the United States such as the eight-hour workday, a federal minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, organized labor's record on much of its agenda has been mixed. Tracy Roof's sweeping examination of...

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behaviour, elections, politics, and policymaking, this book has set the standard for the course. It includes a wealth of data in tables, figures, boxes, and features photos and political...

Why do voters so often exhibit patterns of policy preference vastly different from what analysts and strategists predict? And why do these same voters consistently cast ballots that ensure the continuation of "divided government?" In The Two Majorities...

Scholars and practitioners of public management have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems, and capacity as key to running effective government programs. While acknowledging the usefulness of each of these...

The essays in this volume examine democracy's development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped-and continues to shape-the American political system. Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of...

State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing statements, executive privilege-the executive branch wields many tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century, presidents have used myriad tactics to expand and maintain a...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

The Fifth Edition of American Politics Today is designed to show students the reality of politics today and how it connects to their own lives. New features-from chapter opening cases that address the kinds of questions students ask, to full-page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998559049Author Stacey RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Sons of Joy, LLCPublisher Sons of Joy, LLCWeight(grams) 113g

Integrating lessons from history and social science in a conversational style, Newport, editor in chief of The Gallup Poll, the country's preeminent polling source, explains how polling works and why polls matter in this book for general readers and...

Over 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...

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This book examines the political and religious context in which the Constitution and The Bill of Rights were adopted. Swomley reasons that those who wrote and adopted the Constitution and First Amendment intended a strict separation of church and state,...

In this volume, the author shows how a narrow focus on jobs and bilateral trade confrontations undercuts US relations with its allies. It also jeopardises the real economic and security interests of the United States and its allies in Europe, the Far...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864037Author William J. BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578414102Author John Wendell AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John AmesPublisher John AmesWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578235516Author Gary JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ISBN ServicesPublisher ISBN ServicesWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312245634Author Gerry SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...