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Deliberative Choices - Debating Public Policy In Congress

by Gary Mucciaroni e Paul J. Quirk

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 The task of deliberating public policy falls preeminently to Congress. But decisions on matters ranging from budget deficits to the war with Iraq, among others, raise serious doubts about its performance. This book assesses congressional deliberation by analyzing debate on the House and Senate floors.
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Turf Wars Â€“ How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction

by Dc King

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 For most bills in American legislature, the issue of turf - or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill - is crucial. This study explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress, and dissects the politics of "turf-grabbing".
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Minority Report - Evaluating Political Equality In America

by Brian Newman e John D. Griffin

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 Are the views of Latinos and African Americans under represented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? This title compares the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites.
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Crosstalk - Citizens, Candidates, And The Media In A Presidential Campaign

by Ann N. Crigler, Dean E. Alger, Marion R. Just e Timothy E. Cook

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 This analysis of the 1992 US presidential campaign looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.
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Foreign Policy Disconnect - What Americans Want From Our Leaders But Don''T Get

by Benjamin I. Page e Marshall M. Bouton

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 With world affairs so troubled, what kind of foreign policy should the United States pursue? The authors of this text look for answers in a surprising place: among the American people.
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Turf Wars - How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction

by David C. King

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 For most bills in American legislature, the issue of turf - or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill - is crucial. This study explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress, and dissects the politics of "turf-grabbing".
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Is Anyone Responsible? - How Television Frames Political Issues

by Shanto Iyengar

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 <div>A disturbingly cautionary tale, <i>Is Anyone Responsible?</i> anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished political discourse in the United States and at the same time molds American political consciousness. It is essential reading for media critics, psychologists, political analysts, and all the citizens who want to be sure that their political opinions are their own.<br> <br> "Not only does it provide convincing evidence for particular effects of media fragmentation, but it also explores some of the specific mechanisms by which television works its damage. . . . Here is powerful additional evidence for those of us who like to flay television for its contributions to the trivialization of public discourse and the erosion of democratic accountability."—William A. Gamson, <i>Contemporary Sociology</i><br> <br> "Iyengar''s book has substantial merit. . . . [His] experimental methods offer a precision of measurement that media effects research seldom attains. I believe, moreover, that Iyengar''s notion of framing effects is one of the truly important theoretical concepts to appear in recent years."—Thomas E. Patterson, <i>American Political Science Review</i></div>
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For The Many Or The Few - The Initiative, Public Policy, And American Democracy

by John G. Matsusaka

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 Studies a century of budget data from states and cities to provide a picture of how direct democracy is changing government policies. This book argues against the belief that initiatives empower wealthy special interest groups that neglect the majority view. It demonstrates how initiatives led to significant tax and expenditure cuts.
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Two Reconstructions - The Struggle For Black Enfranchisement

by Richard M. Valelly

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% OFF

 <div>Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.</div> <div> </div> <div>Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award<a href="http://www.apsanet.org/content_20639.cfm"></a> of the American Political Science Association<br></div> <div> <div>Winner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award<a href="http://www.spsa.net/awards05.htm#VOKey"></a> of the Southern Political Science Association</div> <br> The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only a few decades. Ultimately a "second reconstruction"—associated with the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act—became necessary.<br> <br> How did the first reconstruction fail so utterly, setting the stage for the complete disenfranchisement of Southern black voters, and why did the second succeed? These are among the questions Richard M. Valelly answers in this fascinating history. The fate of black enfranchisement, he argues, has been closely intertwined with the strengths and constraints of our political institutions. Valelly shows how effective biracial coalitions have been the key to success and incisively traces how and why political parties and the national courts either rewarded or discouraged the formation of coalitions.<br> <br> Revamping our understanding of American race relations, <i>The Two Reconstructions</i> brilliantly explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America’s development as a political democracy.</div>
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Parties And Leaders In The Postreform House

by David W. Rohde

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 <div>Since the Second World War, congressional parties have been characterized as declining in strength and influence. Research has generally attributed this decline to policy conflicts within parties, to growing electoral independence of members, and to the impact of the congressional reforms of the 1970s. Yet the 1980s witnessed a strong resurgence of parties and party leadership—especially in the House of Representatives.<br> <br> Offering a concise and compelling explanation of the causes of this resurgence, David W. Rohde argues that a realignment of electoral forces led to a reduction of sectional divisions within the parties—particularly between the northern and southern Democrats—and to increased divergence between the parties on many important issues. He challenges previous findings by asserting that congressional reform <i>contributed</i> to, rather than restrained, the increase of partisanship. Among the Democrats, reforms siphoned power away from conservative and autocratic committee chairs and put control of those committees in the hands of Democratic committee caucuses, strengthening party leaders and making both party and committee leaders responsible to rank-and-file Democrats. Electoral changes increased the homogeneity of House Democrats while institutional reforms reduced the influence of dissident members on a consensus in the majority party. Rohde''s accessible analysis provides a detailed discussion of the goals of the congressional reformers, the increased consensus among Democrats and its reinforcement by their caucus, the Democratic leadership''s use of expanded powers to shape the legislative agenda, and the responses of House Republicans. He also addresses the changes in the relationship between the House majority and the president during the Carter and Reagan administrations and analyzes the legislative consequences of the partisan resurgence.<br> <br> A readable, systematic synthesis of the many complex factors that fueled the recent resurgence of partisanship, <i>Parties and Leaders</i> in the Postreform House is ideal for course use.<br></div>
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Rules And Restraint - Government Spending And The Design Of Institutions

by David M. Primo

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 Government spending has increased in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable appetite for tax revenue most politicians seem to share. This book explains why these budget rules tend to fail, and proposes alternatives for imposing the fiscal discipline on our legislators.
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Rational Public - Fifty Years Of Trends In Americans'' Policy Preferences

by Benjamin I. Page e Robert Y. Shapiro

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 <div>This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930''s to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, but also consider how opinions vary by age, gender, race, region, and the like.<br> <br> The authors unequivocally demonstrate that, notwithstanding fluctuations in the opinions of individuals, <i>collective</i> public opinion is remarkably coherent: it reflects a stable system of values shared by the majority of Americans and it responds sensitively to new events, arguments, and information reported in the mass media. While documenting some alarming case of manipulation, Page and Shapiro solidly establish the soundness and value of collective political opinion. <i>The Rational Public</i> provides a wealth of information about what we as a nation have wanted from government, how we have changed our minds over the years, and why.<br> <br> For anyone interested in the short- and long-term trends in Americans'' policy preferences, or eager to learn what Americans have thought about issues ranging from racial equality to the MX missile, welfare to abortion, this book offers by far the most sophisticated and detailed treatment available.<br></div>
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For The Many Or The Few - The Initiative, Public Policy, And American Democracy

by John G. Matsusaka

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 Studies a century of budget data from states and cities to provide a picture of how direct democracy is changing government policies. This book argues against the belief that initiatives empower wealthy special interest groups that neglect the majority view. It demonstrates how initiatives led to significant tax and expenditure cuts.
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Minority Report - Evaluating Political Equality In America

by Brian Newman e John D. Griffin

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 Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, Minority Report shows that congressional decisions and federal policy tend to mirror the preferences of whites as a group and as individuals better than the preferences of either minority group, even after accounting for income disparities. This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors' multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue's level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral turnout can affect how well government action reflects the views of each person or group. Sure to be controversial, Minority Report ultimately goes beyond statistical analyses to address the root question of what equal representation really means.
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Mayors And Money - Fiscal Policy In New York And Chicago

by Ester R. Fuchs

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 Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis.
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Collective Action And The Civil Rights Movement

by Dennis Chong

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 <div>Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government.</div>
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Rational Lives - Norms And Values In Politics And Society

by Dennis Chong

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 Those who study value conflicts have resisted rational choice approaches in the social sciences, contending that political conflict over cultural values is best explained by group loyalties, symbolic motives, and other "nonrational" factors. However, Chong shows that a single model can explain how people make decisions across both social and economic realms. He argues that our preferences result from a combination of psychological dispositions, which are shaped by social influences and developed over the life span. Chong's book yields insights about the circumstances under which preferences, beliefs, values, norms and group identifications are formed. It offers a provocative explanation of how ingrained social norms and values can change over time despite the forces maintaining the status quo. "Going beyond the tired polemics on both sides, [Chong] constructs a new interpretation of human behavior in which culture and individual rationality both matter. The synthesis is a more comprehensive and powerful explanatory framework than either side could have produced, and Chong's creativity should influence subsequent interpretations of our social life in fundamental ways."-Christopher H. Achen, University of Michigan
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Real Democracy - The New England Town Meeting And How It Works

by Frank M. Bryan

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 Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with particular reference to the New England town meeting which provides a model of such a pure form of democracy.
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The Foreign Policy Disconnect - What Americans Want From Our Leaders But Don'T Get

by Benjamin I. Page e Marshall M. Bouton

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Gaining Access - Congress And The Farm Lobby, 1919-1981

by John Mark Hansen

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Actors, Athletes, And Astronauts - Political Amateurs In The United States Congress

by David T. (University Of Wisconsin, Madison) Canon

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Radicalism In The States - The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party And The American Political Economy

by Richard M. Valelly

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The Two Reconstructions - The Struggle For Black Enfranchisement

by Richard M. Valelly

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Parties And Leaders In The Postreform House

by David W. Rohde

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