Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Hiring and Firing Public Officials
Rethinking the Purpose of Elections
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market. According to the market paradigm, voters are consumers, candidates are competing firms, and an election is a market in which voters exchange votes for policy by voting for the candidates whose policies...
The New Legacy
Thoughts on Politics, Family, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
When first printed in 1986, The New Legacy was excerpted by Texas Business Magazine calling it a crucial new book that urges Texans to take the national leadership role in ethics, education, business, and statesmanship, with an update added to bring it to the modern times and explain the conscience...
by Mr. John Aldrich, Jamie L. Carson, Brad T. Gomez
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Is America in the midst of an electoral transformation? What were the sources of Trump’s victory in 2016, and how do they differ from Republican coalitions of the past? Does his victory signal a long-term positive trajectory for Republicans’ chances in presidential elections?
Change and...
Barons of the Beltway
Inside the Princely World of Our Washington Elite--and How to Overthrow Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
From reporter and Fox News star Michelle Fields, a revelation of how the corruption and waste in American politics begins with our elected politicians, and how to take the country back from those that extort its values for personal gain
Our Founding Fathers rejected the notion of royalty and...
The Weight of Their Votes
Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In The Weight of Their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls...
Taking the Measure
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Some of today’s most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.
With...
From Inclusion to Influence
Latino Representation in Congress and Latino Political Incorporation in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In From Inclusion to Influence, Walter Wilson addresses urgent questions regarding the political incorporation of Latinos in America. First, he demonstrates that Latino representatives in the U.S. Congress do, in fact, represent Latino interests more effectively than do other representatives, both...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The United States is experiencing remarkable demographic changes that are having an important impact on the American electorate. As the minority share of the voting-eligible population continues to grow, the political clout of non-Hispanic whites will further decline. The 2012 election demonstrated...
Why Leaders Lie
The Truth About Lying in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive, a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, aroused a firestorm with its unflinching...
by Allyson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and...
Twilight of Liberty
Legacy of the ACLU
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Twilight of Liberty is a sequel to Donohue's highly regarded The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, but with a marked change in emphasis. Instead of challenging the ACLU's nonpartisan reputation, as he did in the earlier volume, Donohue now seeks to demonstrate why and how recent ACLU...
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why...
The 2012 Presidential Election
Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This authoritative and comprehensive survey of political communication draws together a team of the world's leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art review that sets the agenda for future study. It is divided into five sections:
Part One: explores the macro-level influences on political...