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Cambridge University Press Backsliding
Book SynopsisAssaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernicious effects of polarization; realignments of party systems that enable elected autocrats to gain legislative power; and the incremental nature of derogations, which divides oppositions and keeps them off balance. A concluding chapter looks at the international context of backsliding and the role of new technologies in these processes. An online appendix provides detailed accounts of backsliding in 16 countries, which can be found at www.cambridge.org/backsliding.Trade Review'… Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman offer some clarity through a theoretical framework designed to help explain this political phenomenon.' Democracy ParadoxTable of Contents1. Backsliding: Concept, Mechanisms, Measurement; 2. Social and Political Origins of Backsliding: The Role of Polarization; 3. Constitutions in the Balance: Parties, Legislatures and the Collapse of the Separation of Powers; 4. The Backsliding Process; 5. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Democratic Resilience
Book SynopsisPolitics in the United States has become increasingly polarized in recent decades. Both political elites and everyday citizens are divided into rival and mutually antagonistic partisan camps, with each camp questioning the political legitimacy and democratic commitments of the other side. Does this polarization pose threats to democracy itself? What can make some democratic institutions resilient in the face of such challenges? Democratic Resilience brings together a distinguished group of specialists to examine how polarization affects the performance of institutional checks and balances as well as the political behavior of voters, civil society actors, and political elites. The volume bridges the conventional divide between institutional and behavioral approaches to the study of American politics and incorporates historical and comparative insights to explain the nature of contemporary challenges to democracy. It also breaks new ground to identify the institutional and societal sourcTable of ContentsPart I. Why Might Polarization Harm Democracy? Theory and Comparison; 1. How Democracies Endure: The Challenges of Polarization and Resilience Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts; 2. Polarization and the Durability of Madisonian Checks and Balances: A Developmental Analysis Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler; 3. Pernicious Polarization and Democratic Resilience: Analyzing the United States in Comparative Perspective Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer; Part II. Political Institutions in Polarized Times; 4. Cross-Cutting Cleavages, Political Institutions, and Democratic Resilience in the US Frances E. Lee; 5. Unilateralism Unleashed? Polarization and the Politics of Executive Action Douglas L. Kriner; 6. Court-Packing and Democratic Erosion Thomas M. Keck; Part III. Social Polarization and Partisanship; 7. The Social Roots, Risks, and Rewards of Mass Polarization Lilliana Mason and Nathan P. Kalmoe; 8. The Great White Hope: Threat and Racial Resilience in the Age of Trump Christopher Sebastian Parker and Matt A. Barreto; 9. The Religious Sort: The Causes and Consequences of the Religiosity Gap in America Michele F. Margolis; 10. Weaponized Group Identities and the Health of Democracy: Why the National Rifle Association is Good at Democracy but Bad for It Matthew J. Lacombe; Part IV. Vicious Circles? The Relationship Between Polarized Behavior and Institutions; 11. Polarization, the Administrative State, and Executive-Centered Partisanship Desmond King and Sidney Milkis; 12. Laboratories of What? American Federalism and the Politics of Democratic Subversion Philip Rocco; 13. Conservative Extra-Party Coalitions and Statehouse Democracy Alexander Hertel-Fernandez; Part V. Can Political Action Save Democracy in Polarized Times? 14. Elections, Polarization, and Democratic Resilience David A. Bateman; 15. Citizen Mobilization and Partisan Polarizations from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, and Kirsten Walters.
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Cambridge University Press Marketing Sovereign Promises Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Book SynopsisHow did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of the great taxing power of the modern state and how that power is made compatible with economic growth. Part I considers England's rise after the revolution of 1689, highlighting the establishment of annual budgets with shutdown reversions. This core reform effected a great increase in per capita tax extraction. Part II investigates the regional and global spread of British budgeting ideas. Cox argues that states grew only if they addressed a central credibility problem afflicting the Ancien RÃgime - that rulers were legally entitled to spend public revenue however they deemed fit.Trade Review'Seventeenth-century British public finance stands at the intersection of several fields of scholarship - economics, political science, and history - and research on it lies at the foundation of contemporary political economy. In this important work, Gary W. Cox revisits the topic and offers an interpretation of his own. The book is pure Cox: deeply researched, closely argued, and profound - political economy done right.' Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, Massachusetts'This is a major contribution to institutional economics, the application of those methods to understanding British political development, the comparative history of fiscal constitutions, and an interesting extension of arguments about the Industrial Revolution.' Michael Braddick, Sheffield University'Cox combines attention to history with carefully laid out models of political economy to understand just how England arrived at limited government. This is the most important book in historical political economy in the last decade.' Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology'Cox provides us with an important new analysis of a critical historical episode, the growth of parliamentary responsibility in Britain, its economic consequences, and the diffusion of this practice to other countries. He adds greatly to our understanding of how the modern state came to be.' David Stasavage, New York University'Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' B. B. Andrew, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Sovereign credibility and public revenue; Part I. The Glorious Revolution and the English State: 2. The market for taxes and platforms; 3. More credible platforms, more taxes; 4. Pricing sovereign debts; 5. Establishing monopoly brokerage of sovereign debts; 6. The consequences of monopoly brokerage of debt; 7. Property rights; 8. From constitutional commitment to Industrial Revolution; 9. Summarizing the Revolution; Part II. The English Constitutional Diaspora: 10. Exporting the Revolution - the early adopters; 11. Exporting the Revolution - the late adopters; 12. Good political institutions.
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Cambridge University Press Botero The Reason of State
Book SynopsisGiovanni Botero is a significant but often overlooked figure in early modern political thought. This translation of his 1589 volume, Della ragion di Stato, which first popularised the term 'reason of state', introduces Botero to a wider Anglophone audience and demonstrates his opposition to Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince.Table of ContentsPart I. Book 1; Part II. Book Two; Part III. Book Three; Part IV. Book Four; Part V. Book Five; Part VI. Book Six; Part VII. Book Seven; Part VIII. Book Eight; Part IX. Book Nine; Part X. Book Ten; Part XI. Appendix A; Part XII. Appendix B; Part XIII. Appendix C; Part XIV. Appendix D.
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Cambridge University Press Judicial Vetoes
Book SynopsisHow does the selection of judges influence the work they do in important constitutional courts? Does mixed judicial selection, which allows more players to choose judges, result in a court that is more independent and one that can check powerful executives and legislators? Existing literature on constitutional courts tends to focus on how judicial behaviour is motivated by judges'' political preferences. Lydia Brashear Tiede argues for a new approach, showing that, under mixed selection, institutions choose different types of judges who represent different approaches to constitutional adjudication and thus have different propensities for striking down laws. Using empirical evidence from the constitutional courts of Chile and Colombia, this book develops a framework for understanding the factors, external and internal to courts, which lead individual judges, as well as the courts in which they work, to veto a law.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The implications of mixed judicial selection on decision-making; 3. Mixed judicial selection: prevalence and variation; 4. The Chilean Constitutional Tribunal in political context; 5. The Colombian Constitutional Court in political context; 6. Determinants of legal invalidation by constitutional judges; 7. Determinants of legal invalidation by constitutional courts; 8. Weak judicial vetoes and contentious politics; 9. Conclusion: Judicial selection and decision-making.
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Cambridge University Press Popular Dictatorships
Electoral autocracies regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging conventional wisdom, Popular Dictators shows that the success of electoral authoritarianism is not due to these regimes'' superior capacity to repress, bribe, brainwash and manipulate their societies into submission, but is actually a product of their genuine popular appeal in countries experiencing deep political, economic and security crises. Promising efficient, strong-armed rule tempered by popular accountability, elected strongmen attract mass support in societies traumatized by turmoil, dysfunction and injustice, allowing them to rule through the ballot box. Popular Dictators argues that this cris
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Cambridge University Press Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the unprecedented uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010 and 2011, there was much speculation that these events heralded the beginning of a new age of democratic transition across the region. The result of a four-year research project, this book offers a cross-country analysis of the dynamics of democratic transition and of the state of democracy and authoritarianism from Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt to Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Elbadawi and Makdisi identify specific economic, political and social conditions influencing the transition across the region and in each of the individual countries, as well as the requisite conditions for consolidating democracy once the process is initiated. It examines the struggling, halted and painful transitions, where these have for the time being failed, as well as instances in which democratic consolidation can be observed. This is a unique and wide-ranging examination of Arab development and democracy foTrade Review'The book provides ample amounts of data and thorough economic analyses which caters to the cross-country study of the relationship between democracy and the Arab world in general and with respect to specific countries like Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait and Sudan. The volume combines plenty of primary data from various countries within a convincing analytical and quantitative approach.' Zeba Khan, DemocratizationTable of ContentsIntroduction Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi; Part I. Conceptual and Cross-Country Perspectives: 1. Explaining democratic transitions in the Arab world Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi; 2. Overcoming induced insecurities: stabilising Arab democracies after the Spring Abdelwahab El-Affendi; Part II. Case Studies: Successful, Protracted and Painful Transitions: 3. Tunisia: the prospects for democratic consolidation Mongi Boughzala and Saoussen Ben Romdhane; 4. Egypt: the protracted transition from authoritarianism to democracy and social justice Noha El Mikawy, Mohamed Mohieddin and Sarah El Ashmaouy; 5. Syria: the painful transition towards democracy Raed Safadi and Simon Neaime; 6. Kuwaiti democracy: elusive or resilient? Ibrahim Elbadawi and Atif Kubursi; 7. Lebanon: sectarian consociationalism and the transition to a fully fledged democracy Samir Makdisi and Youssef El Khalil; 8. Sudan: transition to democracy after 2011, a dismembered state navigating uncertainties Atta Elbattahani; Part III. Concluding Observations: 9. Resistance to and prospects for democracy Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi.
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Cambridge University Press The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development of constitutional courts in Latin America, and develops concepts such as judicial autonomy and authority. It aims to understand the design of judicial institutions and combines qualitative and quantitative evidence to explore the basic purpose of constitutional justice.Trade Review'For some thirty years now, constitutional politics in general and, more specifically, the performance of higher courts, have become topics of primary public importance in Latin America. In spite of this, however, until now we did not have a critical and systematic study of these issues. Daniel M. Brinks and Abby Blass's book not only fills this void, but it does so on the basis of magnificent empirical work, and offering theoretical reflections on the subject that place this work in the vanguard of existing analyses of constitutional politics.' Roberto Gargarella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires'Daniel M. Brinks is one of the world's leading scholars of judicial politics in the Global South. In The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America, he and Abby Blass offer an innovative and compelling account of the origins of different models of constitutional justice in Latin America since the 1970s. They explain why some justice systems are much more autonomous in relation to the executive than others, and why some have constitutionalized a much wider range of issues than others. The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America offers important conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contributions.' Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School of Government'The increasing political importance of courts and constitutional justice, raises urgent questions about the nature of judicial power. Brinks and Blass offer fresh insights by skilfully combining legal analysis with institutional theory and political economy perspectives on constitution-making - literatures that otherwise rarely speak. They show why we need to pay careful attention to 'the DNA of constitutional governance' - the institutional design inscribed in the constitutional text, that establishes the judges' autonomy and scope of authority - and to the power dynamics and motives that gave rise to these provisions and the coalitions that sustain them. With a rare combination of conceptual innovation, theoretical sophistication, rigorous quantitative analysis, and fine-grained case studies, the book is highly relevant for all scholars and students interested in constitutional governance. It is invaluable for anyone who care about constitutional politics and governance in Latin America - and is a model for similar studies elsewhere.' Siri Gloppen, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway and Research Director, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway Table of Contents1. Constitutional justice in the Americas at the turn of the Millennium; 2. Judicial power and the design of constitutional justice; 3. The political origins of powerful constitutional courts: constitutional governance and the politics of judicial design; 4. Identifying the political origins of constitutional justice through quantitative analysis; 5. Guatemala (1985): building constitutional justice in the shadow of Civil War; 6. Argentina (1994): negotiating a plural space of constitutional justice; 7. Bolivia (2009): governance logic in the new constitutionalism; 8. Conclusion: the politics of constitutional justice; Appendix A. Judicial power: concepts and measures.
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Cambridge University Press Globalization against Democracy
Book SynopsisGlobalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-state democracy. Guoguang Wu provides a theoretical framework of global capitalism for specialists in political economy, political science, economics and international relations, for graduate and undergraduate courses on globalization, capitalism, development and democracy, as well as for the public who are interested in globalization. Wu examines the new institutional features of global capitalism and how they reframe movements of capital, labor and consumption. He explores how globalization has created a chain of connection in which capital depends on effective authoritarianism, while democracy depends on capital. Ultimately, he argues that the emerging state-market nexus has fundamentally shaTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Capitalism in institutional reconfiguration by globalization: a theoretical framework; 3. Institutional oligopoly and embedded coordination: concentrative movements of capital; 4. Human (im)mobility, social poverty and political inability: 'economic man' on the segmented labor market; 5. The shaping of the caged anarchy: standardized consumption, atomized consumers; 6. Global inequalities challenge democracy: sociopolitical impacts of transnational stratification; 7. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Enigma of Presidential Power
Book SynopsisWith gridlock, presidents increasingly rely on unilateral actions - means not requiring legislative statutes - which many view as tantamount to power. Using a variety of approaches, Chiou and Rothenberg show that this need not be the case as, under many conditions, the chief executive''s employment of such tools is constrained. Rather, presidents contemplating issuing executive orders are often constrained by worries about challenging the legislature and the courts. Most notably, the ability of Congress to employ extra-statutory means, involving efforts by legislators and their parties that don''t require passing a law, limit how presidents utilize their discretion. Additionally, political parties can influence presidential choices and actions both by restricting the ideological direction in which presidents can push policy via discretionary authority and by agenda-setting and disciplining members in the legislative process. Nor are all presidential actions equal, as the policy area inTrade Review'Over the past two decades, few features of our Constitutional system have been scrutinized as thoroughly as the apparent rise of presidential powers that has accompanied the rise of the administrative state. But often times the arguments paint with too broad a brush - presidents are too powerful or they are too weak. Thus, Chiou and Rothenberg's nuanced account of the conditions for the successful exercise of presidential power will be an important contribution to this debate.' Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University'Theoretically informed empirical work is alive and well. Chiou and Rothenberg's models feature Congress countering presidential unilateral actions with tools that go well beyond the simple passage of a new law. Support for these models uncovers a robust system of checks and balances, with majority-party strength in Congress seriously constraining imperial instincts of presidents. Challenging past work, this book is a must-read for students of American political institutions.' Craig Volden, University of Virginia'Chiou and Rothenberg combine exhaustive new data with impressively innovative methods to generate real insight. They have made a key contribution to our understanding of the significance of presidential unilateralism. It's a topic that will only become more central to the field, and more importantly to the country, in the years to come.' Andrew Rudalevige, Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, Bowdoin College, MaineTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Thinking about power: theoretical models; 3. Not all unilateral actions are created equal: measuring the significance of executive orders; 4. The race for power: empirically examining competing models; 5. Bringing the parties in: legislative partisan influence and presidential power; 6. The subtleties of power - assessing the two presidencies; 7. Conclusions - solving the enigma of presidential power.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Showdown
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Settle for More Large Print
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Suppression Deception Snobbery and Bias
Book SynopsisAmerica’s liberal media keeps getting the news wrong.In Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias, Fleischer notes that half the country is keenly aware that they are routinely mocked and looked down on by much of the media.
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HarperCollins Get It Together
Book SynopsisAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCan the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country?When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him:First, he liked these people.Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn’t need legislation. They needed a therapist.In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News primetime host takes on Wokeism in a way no one else has. Through a series of (sometimes very) personal interviews with some of the most radical activists in the country, Watters discovers that these activists may be overlooking the most
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Declaration of Independence and the United
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Oxford University Press Current Debates in American Government
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OUP India American Constitutionalism
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The University of Chicago Press Agenda Setting Policies and Political Systems
Book SynopsisBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. This book includes essays that make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.Trade Review"Green-Pedersen and Walgrave have admirably assembled a group of contributors who, individually and collectively, bring the tools of policy agenda analysis to bear on the central political features of each of the countries examined. Along the way, the findings demolish prevailing expectations about national politics in thought-provoking ways. Clear and remarkable for its depth of analysis, this is one of the best collections of essays I have ever read." (David Lowery, Pennsylvania State University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Negotiating in Civil Conflict
Book SynopsisIn 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. The author argues that the terms of the Iraqi Constitution are sufficiently capacious to be interpreted in a variety of ways, allowing it to appeal to the country's three main sects despite their deep disagreements.Trade Review"A rich account of constitutional politics in Iraq informed by the author's firsthand knowledge of the major events. In contrast with the view that emphasizes the United States as the dominant actor in shaping and implementing the Iraqi Constitution, Haider Ala Hamoudi gives emphasis to local agency, arguing persuasively that the Constitution was adapted to meet local needs." (Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago)"
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The University of Chicago Press Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps
Book SynopsisWhy is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compelling reason that today's political leaders devote so much time to conveying their party's positions, even at the expense of basic government functions: Both parties want to win elections. In Strategic Party Government, Koger and Lebo argue that Congress is now primarily a forum for partisan competition. In order to avoid losing, legislators unite behind strong party leaders, even when they do not fully agree with the policies their party is advocating. They do so in the belief that party leaders and voters will reward them for winning or at least trying to win these legislative contests. And as the parties present increasingly united fronts, partisan competition intensifies and pressure continues to mount for a strong party-building strategy d
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The University of Chicago Press Turf Wars How Congressional Committees Claim
Book SynopsisFor 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.Table of ContentsFigures Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Turf Wars on Capitol Hill 2: The Nature of Committee Jurisdictions 3: What Happens When Jurisdictions Are Reformed? 4: Parliamentarians as Institutional Guardians 5: Essential Strategies for Staking Claims 6: Flying Trains and Turf Wars 7: Governing Through Fragmented Committees Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press The Founders Constitution
Book SynopsisThis CD-ROM includes documents from the leading works of political and legal philosophy, history and constitutional argument that informed the thought and debates of the framers of the American Constitution.
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The University of Chicago Press Polyphonic Federalism Toward the Protection of
Book SynopsisThe relationship between the states and the national government is among the most contested issues in the United States. This title defends the advantages of multiple perspectives in government, arguing that the resulting 'polyphony' creates a system that is more efficient, democratic, and protective of liberties.Trade Review"Polyphonic Federalism is a very interesting and important book, proposing a provocative new conception of federalism in the United States. It will make a very important contribution to the current discussion of the functioning of, and the purposes behind, our system of constitutional federalism." - Robert Williams, Rutgers School of Law"
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The University of Chicago Press Learning While Governing
Book SynopsisAlthough their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. This book explores an issue central to political science and public administration: How do Congress and the president ensure that bureaucratic agencies implement their preferred policies?Trade Review"For the creativity of its design, the importance of its subject matter, and the depth of its analysis, Learning While Governing is sure to make a splash in the discipline. Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty dish up a rich array of insights into the development of policy expertise within the executive branch. Most importantly, they show that the development and transmittal of expertise is unavoidably haphazard, as the institutional solutions to some problems of governance unavoidably exacerbate others." (William G. Howell, University of Chicago)"
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Back Bay Books Miracle At Philadelphia The Story of the
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Random House USA Inc Decision in Philadelphia
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Mariner Books Impeach The Case Against Donald Trump
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Unmaking the Presidency
Book SynopsisThis is a book for everyone who has developed an unexpected nostalgia for political ''norms'' during the Trump years . . . Other books on the Trump White House expertly detail the mayhem inside; this book builds on those works to detail its consequences. Carlos Lozada (one of twelve books to read to understand what''s going on)Perhaps the most penetrating book to have been written about Trump in office. Lawrence Douglas, The Times Literary SupplementThe definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidencyThe extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly emb
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Transworld Publishers Ltd No Future Without Forgiveness
Book SynopsisThe establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience.In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past. But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation 'looks the beast in the eye.' Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors Trade Review"The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa has put the spotlight on all of us... In its hearings Desmond Tutu has conveyed our common pain and sorrow, our hope and confidence in the future."--Nelson Mandela
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WW Norton & Co The Republic
Book Synopsis"I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John CiardiTrade Review"No one should think of going to a liberal arts college without reading Plato's Republic. It is one of the basic books of the European mind and culture, now freshly and readably rendered by Sterling and Scott. I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text." -- John Ciardi "The best translation of the Republic or a Platonic dialogue I know. It gives the reader who has no Greek... a sense of the powerful and delicate style of the dialogue and it is not only a success for Plato's inimitable Greek; it is brilliant in its translations of the Greek poetry quoted in the course of the Republic." -- Diskin Clay, Duke University "This new version of Plato's Republic... is founded on a sensitively accurate and highly readable fusion of form and content, style and substance. Plato emerges, as he should, as both thinker and philosophical poet-something that cannot be said of competing versions." -- William Arrowsmith, Emory University
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W. W. Norton & Company Storm Center The Supreme Court in American
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W. W. Norton & Company Constitutional Law and Politics
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W. W. Norton & Company Constitutional Law and Politics
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WW Norton & Co The Politics of Power A Critical Introduction to
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Anarchy State and Utopia
Book Synopsis"A major event in contemporary political philosophy."-Peter Singer, The New York Review of Books
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The University of Michigan Press Implementing Term Limits
Book SynopsisThrough 13 years of intensive research and 460 interviews, this study assesses changes since Michigan's implementation of term limits in 1993 and explores their implications. Paying special attention to term limits' institutional effects, the authors also consider legislative representation, political accountability, and the role of the bureaucracy and interest groups in state legislatures.Trade ReviewThe interview data analyzed in this book are incredibly rich and are used to examine a wide range of legislator and institutional outcomes. This work will be of interest to scholars who study legislatures and term limits and will be useful for classes in Michigan politics or even for practitioners in the state."" - Christopher Witko, University of South Carolina
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Democracy Governance and Growth
Book SynopsisProvides much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among development and growth economists that successful economic development depends fundamentally on the way societies are organised and governed. They argue that ""good governance"" is a prerequisite to sustained increases in living standards.Trade ReviewTo understand economic growth, we have to go beyond narrow economic factors to consider legal and political institutions. In the essays collected here, Steve Knack and his collaborators make important contributions to the measurement of institutional forces, notably to the quantification of the rule of law and contract enforcement." —Robert Barro, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University"This volume collects together a number of contributions that have been crucial in developing our understanding of just how important institutions are to economic development. While accumulation of physical, human and financial capital, labor time and the development of technology may be the proximate triggers of growth, this shifts the onus of investigation to what facilitates investment in machinery, education, knowledge, and promotes the extension of credit to entrepreneurs. Good policy is one sensible response. But while correct, even the best policy response requires an anchor in an institutional environment that promotes confidence on the part of investors that their commitment of scarce resources to projects that often bear their returns at some distant point in the future, stand a good chance of actually being realized. In this volume we are presented with empirical evidence to demonstrate that institutions matter in this context, and that their impact is applicable across a range of stages of development, and diverse cultural settings. Further, we find clear conceptual articulation of why it is that institutions should have such impacts. Finally, the contributions show that institutions of relevance are not confined purely to formal institutions enshrined in legal codes, but that informal values and social networks play a central role in long run economic progress. Together they constitute an important qualifier to any development strategy that focuses too narrowly on policy responses without considering the institutional environment in which such policy is implemented." —Johannes Fedderke, Gencor Professor of Economics, University of Witwatersrand"Mancur Olson was one of the cleverest, quirkiest economists not to have won the Nobel Prize. His path-breaking ideas about the importance of institutions, both formal and informal, for economic prosperity fueled a remarkable burst of theoretical and empirical research by his colleagues and students. Steve Knack's valuable new volume brings together the highlights of this very fruitful period of collaboration." —Robert D. Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
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The University of Michigan Press The Limits of Legitimacy
Book SynopsisWhen the US Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings. In The Limits of Legitimacy, Michael A. Zilis illuminates this link between case law and public opinion.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Culture of Merit
Book SynopsisA study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution
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LUP - University of Michigan Press State Learning and International Change
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The University of Michigan Press Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making
Book SynopsisEvery day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favour peaceful or military solutions.
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The University of Michigan Press Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the
Book SynopsisAnalyses oral argument transcripts from every case decided from 1998 through 2007 as well as the complete collection of notes kept during oral arguments by Justice Lewis F. Powell and Justice Harry A. Blackmun. This study represents a major step forward in the understanding of coalition formation, which is a crucial aspect of many areas of political debate and decision making.
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The University of Michigan Press Majoritarian Cities
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The University of Michigan Press The Presidential Expectations Gap
Book SynopsisFor decades, public expectations of US presidents have become increasingly excessive and unreasonable. Despite much anecdotal evidence, few scholars have attempted to test the expectations gap thesis empirically. This is the first systematic study to prove the existence of the expectations gap and to identify the factors that contribute to the public’s disappointment in a given president.
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The University of Michigan Press The Chief Justice
Book SynopsisBrings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. They consider his appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American system of government more generally.Trade Review“This collection of essays presents the first comprehensively systematicstudy of the role and powers of the Chief Justice of the U.S. SupremeCourt. Inspired by and building on Danelski’s social psychologicalconcepts of leadership, these chapters provide an integrated analysis ofthe historical, institutional, and behavioral developments in the office ofthe chief justice. The authors represent the major scholars from the fieldof law and courts in the discipline of political science, and demonstratein their contributions the breadth of methodologies utilized in the field’sresearch.” - Nancy Maveety, Tulane University
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The University of Michigan Press Remaking the Democratic Party
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Walton argues persuasively that no modern president did more toremake his own political party than Lyndon Johnson. Timely too are hisconclusions that LBJ’s Democratic Party and the opposition RepublicanParty were reshaped into the movements we recognize today, and thatcentral to this seismic shift was the issue of race. This work offers animportant contribution to the field of presidential studies. The research isimpressive and original.” - Michael L. Collins, Regents Professor and Professor Emeritus,Midwestern State University
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Bill of Obligations
Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerA provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if American democracy is to surviveThe United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics. The greatest peril to the country, however, comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change. In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Richard Haass argues that the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet our most intractable conflicts often emerge from contrasting views as to what our rights ought to be. As former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out, “Many of our cases, the most difficult ones, are not about right versus wrong. They are about right versus right.” The lesson is clear: rights alone cannot provide the basis for a functioning, much less flourishing, democracy.But there is a cure: to place obligations on the same footing as rights. The ten obligations that Haass introduces here are essential for healing our divisions and safeguarding the country’s future. These obligations reenvision what it means to be an American citizen. They are not a burden but rather commitments that we make to fellow citizens and to the government to uphold democracy and counter the growing apathy, anger, selfishness, division, disinformation, and violence that threaten us all. Through an expert blend of civics, history, and political analysis, this book illuminates how Americans can rediscover and recover the attitudes and behaviors that have contributed so much to this country’s success over the centuries.As Richard Haass argues, “We get the government and the country we deserve. Getting the one we need, however, is up to us.” The Bill of Obligations gives citizens across the political spectrum a plan of action to achieve it.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Bill of Obligations
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