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Random House USA Inc We Were Eight Years in Power
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The University of Michigan Press Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the
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The University of Michigan Press The Modern Legislative Veto
Book SynopsisUses a multimethod research design, incorporating quantitative and qualitative analyses, to examine the ways that the US Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years. This parliamentary manoeuvre raises troubling questions about the fundamental principle of separation of governmental powers.
£40.05
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State
Book SynopsisCampaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behaviour. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others.Trade ReviewLynda Powell has set out to understand how campaign contributions affect the legislative process. Perhaps surprisingly, scholars have not been able to show this effect of money on politics. Powell provides a strong and clear answer. She does so by first developing a theory of campaigning and legislating. She then tests resulting hypotheses to show: that financing matters; the more money, the more the influence; and that influence is of the 'pay to play' sort. The result is a very fine piece of serious scientific research that speaks to an important set of issues of direct concern to the public." — John Aldrich, Duke University"Lynda Powell combines theoretical clarity with unique empirical data to offer the most rigorous case yet for the widespread but difficult-to-document idea that campaign money influences public policy. This book represents a major step forward in the study of campaign finance effects and deserves a wide readership." — Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego"By moving beyond analyses of roll call votes to instead ask lawmakers themselves how money affects the full range of legislative behaviors—from authoring bills to killing them quietly—Powell makes a methodological contribution that can help change the normative debate. Anyone who cares about state politics or national campaign finance reform needs to read this book's potent new findings." — Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego"[T]his is excellent research and an important contribution to the literatures on campaign finance and state legislatures." — Political Science Quarterly
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The University of Michigan Press Strategic Budgeting
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The University of Michigan Press Multiparty Government
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLaver and Schofield's book is at the same time accessible, pithy, down-to-earth, insightful, and yes, even captivating. In its scope and quality, it has no rival in the literature of party coalitions . . . all students of political parties or legislative behavior should allow themselves the privilege of being educated and entertained by Laver and Schofield's fine book." —American Political Science Review
£31.96
The University of Michigan Press The Color of Representation
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The University of Michigan Press Congress on Display Congress at Work
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The University of Michigan Press Legislatures
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The University of Michigan Press The Federal Judiciary and Institutional Change
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The University of Michigan Press Congress and the RentSeeking Society
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The University of Michigan Press The Color of Representation
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The University of Michigan Press Putting Faith in Partnerships
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The University of Michigan Press The Political Economy of Expertise
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The University of Michigan Press The Floor in Congressional Life
Book SynopsisThe House and the Senate floors are the only legislative forums where all members of the US Congress participate and each has a vote. After tracing the historical development of floor rules, Andrew J. Taylor assesses how well they facilitate a democratic legislative process - that is, how well they facilitate deliberation, transparency, and widespread participation.Trade ReviewTaylor's book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on congressional politics. It tackles an understudied aspect of legislative politics in a detailed and innovative way." — Political Science Quarterly"Andrew Taylor’s fascinating book The Floor in Congressional Life asks novel questions about the House and Senate floors and delivers provocative answers. It elevates the chamber floors to an exalted place within the study of Congress by boldly asserting both their significance and the utility of studying them in isolation from other aspects of congressional behavior, such as committee or caucusmeetings. And it does so with an unusual blend of conventional analysis and big-picture normative arguments." — Congress and the Presidency
£68.95
The University of Michigan Press Congressional Parties Institutional Ambition and
Book SynopsisWith the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority control, both Republicans and Democrats have made large donations to the party and its candidates mandatory for members seeking advancement within party and congressional committee hierarchies. This volume analyses this development and discusses its implications for American government and democracy.Trade ReviewClearly, the findings and conclusions in this book make a contribution to the study of parties in Congress by expanding our knowledge of the different ways parties exert leverage over legislators. However, this information is especially pertinent as scholars come to terms with analyzing a political climate defined by party polarization and deep ideological cleavages." —APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter"Heberlig and Larson make an important contribution to the scholarly literature by providing a new perspective regarding the relationships among campaign finance, political parties, and the operations of the US Congress. ... [T]he research and writing are skillfully done; the authors should be commended for their efforts. Highly recommended" — B.W. Monroe, Choice"Heberlig and Larson provide a necessary and stimulating revision of party theory." — Political Science Quarterly"Heberlig and Larson have delivered an excellent and insightful contribution. Scholars of Congress, parties, campaign finance, and elections should read this book, and will likely be citing it with great frequency." — Congress and the Presidency
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The University of Michigan Press The Modern Legislative Veto
Book SynopsisExamine the ways that US Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years. Michael J. Berry argues that, since the US Supreme Court declared the legislative veto unconstitutional in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) v. Chadha (1983), Congress has strategically modified its use of the veto to give more power to Appropriations Committees.Trade ReviewThe Modern Legislative Veto is an exciting book, one that I have looked forward to for a long time. A discussion of the development of the legislative veto is timely and very important.” —Mathew D. McCubbins, Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Duke University""This book promises to be the definitive work on the legislative veto. It covers the legislative veto at both the federal and state levels, which makes it unique.” —Erik J. Engstrom, University of California, Davis
£72.95
Random House USA Inc Insane Clown President
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of th
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Penguin Putnam Inc Travels with George
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick—a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement.” —The Boston Globe Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.In
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Storm Is Here
Book SynopsisThe New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US. An assignment that began with right-wing militias in Michigan soon took him to an uprising for racial justice in Minneapolis, then to antifascist clashes in the streets of Portland, and ultimately to an attempted insurrection in Washington, D.C. His dispatches for The New Yorker revealed a larger story with ominous implications for America. They were only the beginning.This is the definitive eyewitness account of how—during a season of sickness, economic uncertainty, and violence—a large segment of Americans became convinced of the need to battle against dark for
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Rowman & Littlefield When Did Jesus Become Republican Rescuing Our
Book SynopsisExamines how modern American politics relate to Jesus' vision of love and peace, questioning how right wing Republican policies fit with the Christian values they espouse.Trade ReviewEllingsen's explanations of the psychology and methodology of the organizations driving the religious political movements go a long way in understanding the ways in which they justify their interference in local and national politics....He is...quite correct in his argument that the current battles between religious liberals and conservatives is changing the way many people view Jesus.Mark Ellingsen has written an incredible narrative. Its analysis, if heeded, could realign faith and civic engagement in America. He tells us substantively and clearly why conservatives get the connection between religion and voting right. Ellingsen then unites progressive faith with progressive politics in such a way that the revelations in this book could alter presidential and congressional elections for a generation. He pulls the Left outside of its box and pushes the Right to the center. A refreshing theological voice that untangles the outdated public debates over red states and blue states. What remains is a new vision for a new America and a clarion call for an inclusive civilized discourse. -- Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Divinity School, author of Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, author of Being Human: Race, Culture, and ReligionMark Ellingsen once again brings a thought provoking challenge to the religious and secular communities with his When Did Jesus Become Republican?. It can be an excellent read as we enter into a new era in the political process and as we look at our two party system. Ellingsen makes us examine the question of liberalism and conservatism as it reflects on Jesus, one of our most revolutionary prophetic voices in the religious community, yesterday, today and tomorrow. This is a must read for all political junkies and public theologians. -- W. Arthur Lewis, director of African-American Affairs for former New Jersey Governor James Florio * Helium *Mark Ellingsen here gives some hard-headed counsel on how to break the political lock on Jesus by the Religious Right. Relate, but do not capitulate, to the regnant "Puritan Paradigm." Reclaim the country's own Constitutional faith assumptions of common sense morality and the corruptability of power by human sin. While retaining its diverse religious and secular constituencies, let the Democrats reach out to the more numerous-than-realized mainline Christianity that needs to recover its own narrative faith and resist cultural captivity to the both the relativisms and fundamentalisms of the day. A wealth of wisdom here for both party and church. -- Gabriel Fackre, author of The Religious Right and Christian FaithEllingsen…packs in a remarkable amount of history, mostly of Christianity in America. He not only addresses Christianity's roots, but its U.S. evolution, its ebb and flow, all in an effort to illustrate what he calls 'the dominance of the Puritan Paradigm on our social psyche'…Readers of Jim Wallis, Michael Lerner, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and others who've addressed the dichotomy between the New Testament Jesus, champion of the poor and forgotten, and the Jesus of the political right will want to add this title to their library. * Publishers Weekly *Of all the recent books written as clarion calls for liberals of faith to redefine an alternative to the religious right's version of 'values voting'...Ellingsen's call to action includes something unique: a sociological explanation of why the religious right's version of Christianity resonates with the average American. Ellingsen shows that the "Puritan Paradigm" – what he describes as a 'revivalist-tempered, individualistic Puritanism' – is the prevailing American model for Christianity and righteous living and that policies and practices aligned with this paradigm tend to receive voter approval. All readers, no matter their beliefs, will find the Puritan Paradigm an enlightening key to today's politics. The solutions Ellingsen proposes...could be embraced by Jews, Muslims, and secularists alike. Recommended for all libraries collecting in the area of religion and politics. * Library Journal *When Did Jesus Become Republican? provides an extensive review of how the followers of several religions have changed their thinking when it comes to politics. Mark Ellingsen presents the facts fairly without trying to persuade the reader as to which party he or she should support. He gives an unbiased account of the past and offers strategies that the parties can adopt if they wish to counteract or retain the recent voting trends * Readerviews *This new book by regular Emphasis political columnist Mark Ellingsen is a pearl of great price, hidden behind a sensational and seemingly short-lived polemic....this book is well worth the twenty bucks. I urge you to seek it out and let its wisdom provoke your faith. * Emphasis *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Are True Believers Really Conservative? Part 2 How We Got the Way We Are Chapter 3 The Puritan Paradigm Chapter 4 Revivalism and the Individualizing of American Religion Chapter 5 Fundamentalism, Its Decline, and the Rise of the Religious Right Chapter 6 The Conservative Jesus Part 7 Why It's Unlikely To Get Better Soon Chapter 8 American Theological Education Since World War II Chapter 9 Impact of German Philosophy and Theology on the Pews:The Importance of Today's Cutting-Edge Theologies Chapter 10 The Impact of Americanization Chapter 11 Stubborn Exceptions and What They Might Teach Us Part 12 It Will Take a Conservative Theology To Recover a Politically Liberal Jesus and a New Liberal Coalition Chapter 13 Resources in Classical Christianity Chapter 14 What Catholics and Protestants Will Need To Do to Keep Jesus and his Gospel form Becoming Conservative: Some New (Old) Alternatives Chapter 15 Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Quilts Presidential and Patriotic
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Johns Hopkins University Press Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique eyewitness account of the launching of the government under the Constitution is also one of the great American diaries, consistently entertaining and compulsively readable. -- Richard B. Bernstein Constitution This unique eyewitness account of the launching of the government under the Constitution is also one of the great American diaries, consistently entertaining and compulsively readable. -- Richard E. Bernstein ConstitutionTable of ContentsIllustrationsIntroductionEditorial MethodAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and SymbolsMembers of the SenateMembers of the House of RepresentativesPart I. The Diary of William MaclayFirst SessionSecond SessionThird SessionAppendix A: Miscellaneous Diary DocumentsAppendix B: Newspaper PiecesAppendix C: Genealogical ChartAppendix D: Correspondence of William MaclayAppendix E: Biography of William MaclayPart II. Other Notes on Senate DebatesThe Notes of:Johns AdamsPierce ButlerWilliam Samuel JohnsonRufus KingWilliam PatersonPaine WingateIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower DoctrineChapter 2: Foreign AidPart II: Civil Rights; June 1957 to September 1957Chapter 3: "I am astonished and chagrined"Chapter 4: "Logic and reason must operate gradually"Chapter 5: Little RockPart III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958Chapter 6: Sputnik and "the fears of our own people"Chapter 7; NATO and the Cold War
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart IV: Recession and Reform; February 1958 to May 1958Chapter 8: "To engender confidence"Chapter 9: "The problems inherent in this job"Chapter 10: Restructuring for National SecurityPart V: Forcing the President's Hand; June 1958 to October 1958Chapter 11: "Take time by the forelock"Chapter 12: American Invades the MideastChapter 13: Quemoy and MatsuPart VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959Chapter 14: A "dreary election result"Chapter 15: "Debate is the breath of life"
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart VII: Berlin and the Chance for a Summit; March 1959 to August 1959Chapter 16: A "staunch bulwark" resignsChapter 17: "Source of division" among alliesChapter 18: "These extremist approaches"Part VIII: "Friends and Foes"; September 1959 to February 1960Chapter 19: Khrushchev in AmericaChapter 20: "No substitute for personal contact"Part IX: Shattered Dreams; March 1960 to July 1960Chapter 21: "Progess in a knotty problem"Chapter 22: Disaster in Paris
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower The
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders.Table of ContentsPart X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961Chapter 23: "To keep the Free World free"Chapter 24: "We missed by such a narrow margin"Chapter 25: Farewells and WarningsBibliography: Note on Primary SourcesBibliography: Secondary Sources CitedGlossaryChronologyGeneral Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Government Performance
Book SynopsisWhile acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.Trade ReviewThis slim volume, a seminal study, provides a positive picture of public managers eager to learn and to create management capacity, which is posited as the key to governmental performance... A must read for students of public management. Choice 2004 The authors of this volume argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. International Review of Administrative Sciences An ambitious and well-publicized attempt to define criteria for measuring government performance... Well argued and rich in material. -- Sandford Borins Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2004Table of ContentsContents: 1. Management, Capacity, and Performance 2. Dissecting Management 3. Assessing Management 4. Research Methodology 5. State and Local Findings 6. Federal Results 7. The Big Lessons 8. Next Steps
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Johns Hopkins University Press Selling Intervention and War
Book Synopsisforeign policy, international security, the military and foreign policy, and international conflict.Trade ReviewHistorians and political scientists will find value in this book. Choice 2006 In a series of five fascinating case studies, Jon Western develops a complex model of the power plays and tussle for real-world effect amongst Washington's foreign policy elites. Media International Australia 2006 Western's book is especially timely because the era of active interventionism sponsored by the George W. Bush administration may continue beyond the presidential election of 2008. -- Doris A. Graber International History Review 2006 Western has done an excellent job on an important topic and his book is worth reading for any scholar studying the war, news, and public opinion connection. Students, in particular, will find this book extremely useful. Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Liberal Theory and the Politics of Selling WarChapter 2. Saying No to the French at DienbienphuChapter 3. Intervention in LebanonChapter 4. Battling the Vietnam Syndrom in GrenadaChapter 5. Famine in Somalia and Ancient Hatreds in BosniaChapter 6. The War over IraqChapter 7. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press In Pursuit of Performance
Book SynopsisIn Pursuit of Performance is an invaluable tool for government leaders and the scholars who study them.Trade Review"An important and valuable report about an important and valuable project. The information and statistics about procedural variations in governments around the nation and the status of their management systems have never been compiled and presented before with anywhere near this level of detail and analytical rigor." - Hal G. Rainey, University of Georgia, author of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 3rd ed., and Modernizing Human Resource Management in the Federal Government"Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Studying State and Local Management Systems: Why We Need to Do ItChapter 2. Putting Money Where the Need Is: Managing the Finances of State and Local GovernmentsChapter 3. Underpinning Government: Capital and Infrastructure Management in State and Local GovernmentChapter 4. Government's Largest Investment: Human Resource Management in States, Counties, and CitiesChapter 5. The Performance Challenge: Information Technology Management in States, Counties, and CitiesChapter 6. The Reality of Results: Managing for Results in State and Local GovernmentChapter 7. Integration of Management Systems in State and Local GovernmentChapter 8. Learning to Build Capacity: Applying the GPP Model to Other GovernmentsChapter 9. Counting the Ways Management Matters to PerformanceAppendix A: The Analytical Model for the GPPAppendix B: Criteria Used by GPP AnalystsAppendix C: Governments Evaluated by the GPPList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading Representatives The Agency of Leaders in
Book SynopsisThis engagingly written book will be of interest to political scholars of all stripes as well as readers inclined to learn more about the history and inner workings of the House.Trade ReviewStrahan's fascinating analysis, thorough interviews and primary sources, is pure inside baseball. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2008 Strahan has done an excellent job of furthering the debate on House leadership. Highly recommended. All undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Choice 2008 Randall Strahan's book offers a fascinating insight into the rigorous methods of political science. -- Bernard Genton Cercles 2011Table of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Leading Representatives2. Explaining Congressional Leadership3. Henry Clay: The Unionist as Speaker4. Thomas Reed: The Responsible Partisan as Speaker5. Newt Gingrich: The Transformative Leader as Speaker6. Conclusion: Congressional Leadership and Its LimitsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading Representatives The Agency of Leaders in
Book SynopsisThis engagingly written book will be of interest to political scholars of all stripes as well as readers inclined to learn more about the history and inner workings of the House.Trade ReviewStrahan's fascinating analysis, thorough interviews and primary sources, is pure inside baseball. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2008 Strahan has done an excellent job of furthering the debate on House leadership. Highly recommended. All undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Choice 2008 Randall Strahan's book offers a fascinating insight into the rigorous methods of political science. -- Bernard Genton Cercles 2011Table of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Leading Representatives2. Explaining Congressional Leadership3. Henry Clay: The Unionist as Speaker4. Thomas Reed: The Responsible Partisan as Speaker5. Newt Gingrich: The Transformative Leader as Speaker6. Conclusion: Congressional Leadership and Its LimitsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Madisonian Constitution The Johns Hopkins
Book SynopsisEngagingly written and soundly argued, this study clarifies and highlights the political origins of the nation's foundational document and argues that American constitutionalism is primarily about countervailing power not legal limits enforced by courts.Trade ReviewIn this ambitious, densely written and thought provoking work, Thomas proposes a perspective on constitutional interpretation that is at once a normative theory of constitutional practice and a redescription of constitutional history informed by that practice. -- Douglas C. Dow Law and Politics Book Review 2009 By departing from traditional perspectives on judicial review, Professor Thomas provides an unconventional, yet refreshing and historically grounded, view of how historical constitutional conflicts have fallen squarely within Madison's vision. Harvard Law Review 2009 Thomas's book paves an important new path for the rest of us in our study of the Constitution and its effect on politics. His account of Madison's principle of constitutional contestation might well be the best account that yet exists of the reigning principle of our founder's political thought. -- Benjamin Kleinerman Review of Politics 2009 In The Madisonian Constitution, Thomas charts a philosophically grounded and historically informed course... showing that James Madison and most others responsible for framing the Constitution, as well as major statesmen who followed, had a more prudent approach in mind. -- Stanley C. Brubaker Law and Society Review 2009 The Madisonian Constitution reminds readers of that moment when, as Justice Story said, the meaning of the fundamental law was something far more important than the mere lawyers' 'extraordinary gloss' it has become. -- Gary L. McDowell Journal of American History 2009 Thomas's Madison points the way to salvation from forms of constitutionalism that either place inordinate power in a small body of elite judges and lawyers, or give up on constitutional government altogether. -- Michael P. Zuckert Claremont Review of Books 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Madison's Complex Constitutionalism2. Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Meaning of the Civil War Amendments3. The Progressive Reconstruction of American Constitutionalism4. Discontinuities in the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937"5. Unsettling the New Deal and the Return of OriginalismConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Democratization in America
Book Synopsiscase is a unique reference point for students of American political development and comparative democratization.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to our understanding of American political development. -- Christopher N. Lawrence American Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Setting the Theoretical ContextChapter 1. American Political Development as a Process of DemocratizationChapter 2. Two Comparative Democratization Perspectives: "Brown Areas" and "Immanence"Chapter 3. Two-Tier Citizenship: The Unresolved Challenge of Puerto Rico's Electoral ExclusionChapter 4. Same Dream, Different Fates: Latinos' Inclusion/Exclusion and U.S. DemocratizationPart II: Constitutionalism and DemocratizationChapter 5. Gender and Democracy in the American Constitutional OrderChapter 6. The Reversal of Black Voting Rights after ReconstructionChapter 7. Deliberation, Incivility, and Race in Electoral CampaignsPart III: Federal Institutions, Race, and Democratic ReformChapter 8. Democratizing Authority: The Multiple Motives behind Black Police Appointments in the Twentieth-Century United StatesChapter 9. Civil Rights and the Democratization Trap: The Public-Private Nexus and the Building of American DemocracyPart IV: New AgendasChapter 10. The Development of Democratic Citizenship: Toward a New Research AgendaChapter 11. American Political Development and Comparative DemocratizationNotesReferences List of ContributorsIndex
£59.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Democratization in America A
Book Synopsiscase is a unique reference point for students of American political development and comparative democratization.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to our understanding of American political development. -- Christopher N. Lawrence American Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Setting the Theoretical ContextChapter 1. American Political Development as a Process of DemocratizationChapter 2. Two Comparative Democratization Perspectives: "Brown Areas" and "Immanence"Chapter 3. Two-Tier Citizenship: The Unresolved Challenge of Puerto Rico's Electoral ExclusionChapter 4. Same Dream, Different Fates: Latinos' Inclusion/Exclusion and U.S. DemocratizationPart II: Constitutionalism and DemocratizationChapter 5. Gender and Democracy in the American Constitutional OrderChapter 6. The Reversal of Black Voting Rights after ReconstructionChapter 7. Deliberation, Incivility, and Race in Electoral CampaignsPart III: Federal Institutions, Race, and Democratic ReformChapter 8. Democratizing Authority: The Multiple Motives behind Black Police Appointments in the Twentieth-Century United StatesChapter 9. Civil Rights and the Democratization Trap: The Public-Private Nexus and the Building of American DemocracyPart IV: New AgendasChapter 10. The Development of Democratic Citizenship: Toward a New Research AgendaChapter 11. American Political Development and Comparative DemocratizationNotesReferences List of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Book SynopsisA rich source of information about the members of Congress, their lives in New York, their concerns about their families, and the services they performed for their constituents, the documents from these three new volumes will be incorporated into The Early Republic, an innovative online reference hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsCorrespondence: Second Session15-31 March 1790April 1790May 1790June 1790
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Johns Hopkins University Press Polemical Pain Slavery Cruelty and the Rise of
Book SynopsisPolemical Pain shows how the debate over slavery's cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today.Trade ReviewA fascinating book on history and consequences of slavery. The research [is] impeccable and it [is] organized in a very readable and easy to grasp fashion. -- Lenore R. Book Bargains and Previews 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Self-Denial, Martyrdom, and the Formation of Quaker Humanitarianism2. Humanity, Human Nature, and the Problem of Cruelty3. Moral Responsibility and Removal, 1800–18324. Politicizing Humaneness, 1832–18395. Suited for Slavery, 1840–18516. The Contradictions of Benevolence, 1852–1861EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Random House USA Inc Rogue Justice The Making of the Security State
Book SynopsisThe definitive account of how America’s War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the attorney general with preventing another terrorist attack on the United States. From that day forward, the Bush administration turned to the Department of Justice to give its imprimatur to activities that had previously been unthinkable—from the NSA’s spying on US citizens to indefinite detention to torture. Many of these activities were secretly authorized, others done in the light of day.When President Obama took office, many observers expected a reversal of these encroachments upon civil liberties and justice, but the new administration found the rogue policies to be deeply entrenched and, at times, worth preserving. Obama ramped up targeted killings, held fast to aggressive surveillance policies, and fell
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Random House USA Inc Off the Sidelines Speak Up be Fearless and Change
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. “One of the most helpful, readable, down-to-earth, and truly democratic books ever to come out of the halls of power.”—Gloria SteinemOff the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. If women were fully represented in politics, Gillibrand says, national priorities would shift to issues that directly impact them: affordab
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Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. Riding With Reagan
Book SynopsisThis warm and affectionate memoir about beloved President Ronald Reagan has been hailed as a classic
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Random House USA Inc Morgenthau
Book SynopsisA “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American CenturyA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year “Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and a welcome reminder that even the most noxious evils can be vanquished when capable and committed citizens do their best.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearAfter coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America’s criminal justice system. With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biogra
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Random House USA Inc Lady Bird Johnson Hiding in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York TimesThe inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on HuluPerhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most powerful. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig reveals how indispensable the First Lady was to Lyndon Johnson’s administration—which Lady Bird called “our” presidency. In addition to advising him through critical moments, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Theodore Roosevelt and a virtually unknown initiative to desegregate access to public recreation and
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Random House USA Inc Alter Egos Hillary Clinton Barack Obama and the
Book Synopsis“An inside account of Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Barack Obama that brims with insight and high-level intrigue.”—Jane Mayer, bestselling author of Dark MoneyThe deeply reported story of two trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic destiny but hold very different beliefs about how to project American power—from veteran New York Times White House correspondent Mark LandlerIn the annals of American statecraft, theirs was a most unlikely alliance. Clinton, daughter of an anticommunist father, was raised in the Republican suburbs of Chicago in the aftermath of World War II, nourishing an unshakable belief in the United States as a force for good in distant lands. Obama, an itinerant child of the 1970s, was raised by a single mother in Indonesia and Hawaii, suspended between worlds and a witness to the less savory side of Uncle Sam’s influence abroad. Clinton and Obama wo
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The University Press of Kentucky Clark Clifford The Wise Man of Washington
Book SynopsisOne of the most renowned Washington insiders of the twentieth century, Clark Clifford (1906--1998) was a top advisor to four Democratic presidents. In Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington, John Acacia chronicles Clifford's rise from midwestern lawyer to Washington power broker and presidential confidant.
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Ohio State University Press Comparing PostSoviet Legislatures A Theory of
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Speaking the Law The Obama Administrations
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