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Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization
ISBN: PB: 9780226609577, ISBN: HB: 9780226609430, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 line drawings, 16 tables
The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended th...
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Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables
Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...
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Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...
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Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...
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Teachers of the People Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill
ISBN: PB: 9780226637624, ISBN: HB: 9780226467498, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising...
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Creating Political Presence The New Politics of Democratic Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226588537, ISBN: HB: 9780226588360, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table
For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents' interests? How can representativ...
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Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780226589343, ISBN: HB: 9780226589206, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 line drawings, 54 tables
How is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party? Profoundly, according to Gary C. Jacobson. From Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, every postwar president has powerfully shaped Americans' f...
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Aristotle Democracy and Political Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...
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Billionaires and Stealth Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...
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Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...
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