Political parties and party platforms Books
The University of Michigan Press Rationality of Irrationality
Book SynopsisArgues that political parties are motivated to strategically blur their position on an issue when they struggle with a certain disadvantage in the issue. Specifically, political parties present an ambiguous position when their own supporters are divided in their stances on the issue.Trade Review“This is a great book for all political scientists eager to better understand how parties strategically act to ensure their vote share. Politicians and party elites could learn from the evidence here to think about their own choices.”— Sean McGraw, Boston College“Rationality of Irrationality is a highly promising book on position blurring as a partisan strategy and how voters respond to this strategy. Han expands on this recent wave of literature on position blurring with original ideas and inspiring analyses. A must-read for anyone interested in party strategies and their electoral effects.”— Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Aarhus UniversityTable of Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Position Blurring 3. Measuring Position Blurring 4. Position Blurring and Voter Behavior 5. Issue Disadvantage, Party Competition Environment, and Issue Avoidance 6. Radical Right-Wing Parties’ Position Blurring on the Economy 7. Social Democratic Parties’ Position Blurring on Immigration 8. Concluding Remarks Appendix References
£61.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Radical Right in Western Europe
Book SynopsisThe rise of new political competitors on the radical right is a central feature of many contemporary European party systems. The first study of its kind based on a wide array of comparative survey data, this book provides a unifying framework to explain why rightist parties are electorally powerful in some countries but not in others.
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Competing Principals
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The University of Michigan Press Challenges to Political Parties
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Governor as Party Leader
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsParty government : the American model -- Coalition building for electing and governing -- The rules and the game -- Resources, factions, and strategies : direct-primary states -- Resources, factions, and strategies : party endorsement states -- Money versus party effort : nominating for governor -- Governors and governing -- The government and party government.
£72.95
The University of Michigan Press Altering Party Systems
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii-ix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 2. Tales of New and Old Political Parties 11 3. A Theoretical Model 37 4. Studying New Parties 65 5. The Emergence of New Parties 79 6. The Initial Success of New Parties 125 7. Conclusion 147 8. Appendix 151 References 189 Index 205
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Madisonian Turn
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The University of Michigan Press Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe
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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
£68.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Party Discipline in the U.S. House of
Book SynopsisExamines the disciplinary measures that party leaders in the US House of Representatives employ to exact loyalty, as well as the consequences for a democratic legislature. Drawing on data from 1987 to 2010, Kathryn Pearson identifies the conditions under which party leaders opt to prioritize policy control and those which induce them to prioritize majority control.
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The University of Michigan Press Leadership Organizations in the House of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book fills an important void in our understanding of how the party leadership structure in the U.S. House has steadily changed since the 1970s and is a must-read for anyone interested in how House leadership organizations have assisted the parties in fulfilling their electoral and political goals.” —Jamie Carson, University of Georgia “Meinke has collected a ton of data. But what he has done with that data is even more impressive. His thorough examination of members’ lives through the lens of House leadership organizations says a lot about them and the institution in which they work. His impressive study gives us a more nuanced view not only of how the House has worked in the past, but more importantly, how it is likely to work in the future as the role of parties strengthens.”—Sean M. Theriault, University of Texas at Austin
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The University of Michigan Press The Whips
Book SynopsisThe party whips are essential components of the US legislative system, responsible for marshalling party votes and keeping House and Senate party members in line. In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive exploration of coalition building and legislative strategy in the US House and Senate.Trade ReviewThis is a superb treatment of an important subject. Every scholar of Congress, every practitioner of congressional politics, and every student, graduate and undergraduate, will learn important lessons about Congress from this book. The book is exceptionally well researched, written with flare, and remarkably comprehensive. The new data brought to bear on important issues is unparalleled in the field."" - Steven Smith, Washington University in St. Louis""Evans provides us with an engaging, well-written, and detailed study of the whip system that sheds new light on congressional coalition-building and intra-party politics. I highly recommend Evans's significant empirical and theoretical contribution to scholars' understanding of congressional party leadership, congressional procedure, members' voting decisions, and the legislative process more generally."" - Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota
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The University of Michigan Press Whatever Happened to Party Government
Book SynopsisIn 1950, the Committee on Political Parties of the American Political Science Association (APSA) published its much-anticipated report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System. Mark Wickham-Jones provides the first full, archival-based assessment of the arguments within APSA about political parties and the 1950 report.Trade ReviewThere is nothing like this book in print. No one has traced the inside story of how the famous APSA report got produced in anything like this depth. It is a fascinating story! Among other things, the book is a wonderful, unmatched window into American political science of the mid-20th century as its professionals went about their business."" - David Mayhew, Yale University""As much archaeologist as historian, Mark Wickham-Jones dug up sources—unpublished papers, letters, memos, oral histories—buried in multiple sites across the nation. Using these sources and hundreds of cited publications, he shows how interpersonal relationships among party politics scholars has affected our views of party government in the United States."" - Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University""In 1946 the American Political Science Association asked its best and brightest to conceive of a responsible party system for the brave new world. In this masterful political history, Mark Wickham-Jones recounts with gripping detail the APSA task force's struggles to reconcile a dilemma of governance. How could disciplined party power, necessary to implement the activist postwar agenda, be reconciled with political responsiveness to voices far from the cloakrooms of Congress? At this critical juncture in American politics, it behooves us to revisit the deliberations and legacies of our predecessors. The struggles of the task force are our own, and Wickham-Jones' suspenseful story should be required reading for anyone concerned about the promise, folly, and fate of American politics."" - Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, Co-Chair of the 2013 American Political Science Association Presidential Task Force on Political Negotiation""As our parties today struggle to actually govern, this surprising and thoughtful book takes us back to a time when political scientists placed their highest hopes for more effective and democratic government in the party system."" - Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Partnering with Extremists
Book SynopsisBuilds on work on coalition formation to propose a theory that works across countries and over time. The evidence comes from case studies of coalition formation in Austria and the Netherlands, where far-right parties have been excluded when they could have been included and included when the mainstream right had other options.Trade Review“The first book-length study of coalition formation with radical right parties. This book provides a useful narrative account of how mainstream-right parties have worked with and against the radical right, giving readers very important background information on key cases. It is likely to be read and cited extensively by those working on radical right parties in parliament and in government- a growing field.” - Markus Wagner, University of Vienna
£61.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Jeffords Switch
Book SynopsisSenator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in May 2001 and became an independent. Because he agreed to vote with the Democrats on organisational votes, this gave that party a 51-49 majority in the Senate. Using the “Jeffords switch”, Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe examine how power is shared and transferred in the Senate.Trade ReviewA worthy professional contribution to the literature on the Senate, this book advances the debate on how parties make a difference in the Senate, and Congress more generally, with important new perspectives and empirical findings. Den Hartog and Monroe's inclusion of case study and elite interview material provide richness and welcome nuance to the analysis." - Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University"A splendid example of scholars taking advantage of a natural quasi-experiment in a creative way, combining quantitative, qualitative, and case-study materials to weave a nuanced and compelling narrative. I think it will be a visible and well-cited contribution to the literatures on Congress and quasi-experimental design." - Walter Stone, University of California, Davis"This creative new book on the Jeffords Switch offers a nuanced examination of the role of majority parties in structuring outcomes in the U.S. Senate, since the authors have a chance to 'hold everything else constant' in their analysis within the same Congress." - Jamie L. Carson, University of Georgia
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University of California Press Stalinism for All Seasons
Book SynopsisPresents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Why a History of Romanian Communism? 1. Understanding National Stalinism: Legacies of Ceausescu's Socialism 2. A Messianic Sect: The Underground Romanian Communist Party, 1921--1944 3. The Road to Absolute Power: From Quasi-Monarchy to People's Democracy, 1944--1948 4. Stalinism Unbound, 1948--1956 5. Aftershocks of the the CPSU's Twentieth Congress, 1957--1960 6. Opposing Khrushchevism: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Emergence of National Communism, 1960--1965 7. Ceausescu's Dynastic Communism, 1965--1989 Epilogue: The RCP's Afterlife: Where Did All The Members Go? 1989--2000 Appendix: The Romanian Communist Party's Leadership: A Biographical Roster Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Steep
Book SynopsisIn the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. This title brings together leading scholars and experts on the American Right to examine a political movement that electrified American society. It provides accounts of the movement's development at local and national levels.Trade Review"Steep is an important source for an understanding of the present and future polarization of US politics." Times Higher Education "Excellent... These essays bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and offer welcome evidence in support of their arguments... Recommended." -- D. R. Imig, University of Memphis Choice "Informative and deeply readable." -- Heath Brown New Books NetworkTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Rise of the Tea Party Christine Trost and Lawrence Rosenthal Part I: What Manner of Movement? 1: The Tea Parties in Historical Perspective: A Conservative Response to a Crisis of Political Economy Charles Postel 2: Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement Chip Berlet 3. View from the Top: A Report on Six National Tea Party Organizations Devin Burghart 4: AstroTurf versus Grass Roots: Scenes from Early Tea Party Mobilization Clarence Y.H. Lo Part II: "The Real Americans": Motivation and Identity 5: The Tea Party: A "White Citizenship" Movement? Lisa Disch 6: The Past and Future of Race in the Tea Party Movement Joseph Lowndes 7: Of Mama Grizzlies and Politics: Women and the Tea Party Melissa Deckman Part III: New on the Bloc: Political Impact 8: Grand Old Tea Party: Partisan Polarization and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement Alan I. Abramowitz 9: The Future of the Tea Party: Scoring an Invitation to the Republican Party Martin Cohen 10: The Tea Party and Religious Right Movements: Frenemies with Benefits Peter Montgomery Epilogue About the Contributors Index
£47.20
University of California Press Steep
Book SynopsisIn the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. This title brings together leading scholars and experts on the American Right to examine a political movement that electrified American society. It provides accounts of the movement's development at local and national levels.Trade Review"Steep is an important source for an understanding of the present and future polarization of US politics." Times Higher Education "Excellent... These essays bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and offer welcome evidence in support of their arguments... Recommended." -- D. R. Imig, University of Memphis ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Rise of the Tea Party Christine Trost and Lawrence Rosenthal Part I: What Manner of Movement? 1: The Tea Parties in Historical Perspective: A Conservative Response to a Crisis of Political Economy Charles Postel 2: Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement Chip Berlet 3. View from the Top: A Report on Six National Tea Party Organizations Devin Burghart 4: AstroTurf versus Grass Roots: Scenes from Early Tea Party Mobilization Clarence Y.H. Lo Part II: "The Real Americans": Motivation and Identity 5: The Tea Party: A "White Citizenship" Movement? Lisa Disch 6: The Past and Future of Race in the Tea Party Movement Joseph Lowndes 7: Of Mama Grizzlies and Politics: Women and the Tea Party Melissa Deckman Part III: New on the Bloc: Political Impact 8: Grand Old Tea Party: Partisan Polarization and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement Alan I. Abramowitz 9: The Future of the Tea Party: Scoring an Invitation to the Republican Party Martin Cohen 10: The Tea Party and Religious Right Movements: Frenemies with Benefits Peter Montgomery Epilogue About the Contributors Index
£21.25
University of California Press Loves Next Meeting
Book SynopsisHow queerness and radical politics intersectedearlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the earlyprewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next MeetiTrade Review“A startling and joyful work of scholarship, a book about revolutionary people that feels revolutionary itself.” * Jacobin *"Nothing less than revelatory. . . . As Lecklider shows, through a combination of meticulous archival research and astute, often surprising analysis, in the decades before Stonewall, homosexual and gender nonconforming men and women were fighting for liberation through involvement with the Left. . . . They took part in radical labor organizing, joined the fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, opposed racism, sexism, and state and police repression. They were intersectional avant la lettre." * PopMatters *“Rather than treat political radicalism and dissident sexuality as discrete phenomena, Lecklider convincingly demonstrates how sexual “deviance” and anti-capitalist views coevolved alongside racial and immigrant justice and women’s liberation in the context of the US's diversifying urban centers. . . . Students of sexuality, American radicalism, and urban history will learn much from Love’s Next Meeting.” * CHOICE *“Lecklider traces a usable past for queer-Left politics that is saturated with humor and memorable detail. . . . Love’s Next Meeting makes a major contribution to histories of sexuality, queer politics, the Left, and American culture. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and passionately written." * Journal of the History of Sexuality * "Pithy and provocative, Love’s Next Meeting is the culmination of Lecklider’s years long deep dive into the question of why sexual dissidents were attracted to the Old Left even though the Left officially rejected them." * Against the Current: A Socialist Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Deviant Politics 1. "Flaunting the Transatlantic Breeze": Sexual Dissidents on the Left 2. "After Sex, What?": Politicizing Sex on the Left 3. "To Be One with the People": Homosexuality and the Cultural Front 4. "If I Can Die under You": Homosexuality and Labor on the Left 5. "Socialism & Sex Is What I Want": Women, Gender, and Sexual Dissidence in the 1930s and 1940s 6. "Playing the Queers": Homosexuality in Proletarian Literature 7. "We Who Are Not Ill": Queer Antifascism 8. "The Secret Element of Their Vice": Deviant Politics in the Cold War List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press Nicaragua Must Survive
Book SynopsisNicaragua Must Survivetells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of musicians, politicians, teachers, activists, priests, feminists, and journalists flocked to the country to experience the revolution firsthand. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Eline van Ommen reveals the role that Western Europe played in Nicaragua's revolutionary diplomacy. Blending grassroots organizing and formal foreign policy, pragmatic guerrillas, creative diplomats, and ambitious activists from Europe and the Americas were able to create an international environment in which the Sandinista Revolution could survive despite the odds.Nicaragua Must Surviveargues that this diplomacy was remarkably effective, propelling Nicaragua into the global limelight and allowing the reTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Internationalizing Struggle, 1977–1979 2 • Triumph and Consolidation, 1979–1980 3 • The Revolution under Attack, 1981–1982 4 • Creative Defense, 1983–1984 5 • Fundraising for the Revolution, 1985–1986 6 • Peace and Elections, 1987–1990 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Loves Next Meeting
Book SynopsisHow queerness and radical politics intersectedearlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the earlyprewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next MeetiTrade Review“A startling and joyful work of scholarship, a book about revolutionary people that feels revolutionary itself.” * Jacobin *"Nothing less than revelatory. . . . As Lecklider shows, through a combination of meticulous archival research and astute, often surprising analysis, in the decades before Stonewall, homosexual and gender nonconforming men and women were fighting for liberation through involvement with the Left. . . . They took part in radical labor organizing, joined the fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, opposed racism, sexism, and state and police repression. They were intersectional avant la lettre." * PopMatters *“Rather than treat political radicalism and dissident sexuality as discrete phenomena, Lecklider convincingly demonstrates how sexual “deviance” and anti-capitalist views coevolved alongside racial and immigrant justice and women’s liberation in the context of the US's diversifying urban centers. . . . Students of sexuality, American radicalism, and urban history will learn much from Love’s Next Meeting.” * CHOICE *“Lecklider traces a usable past for queer-Left politics that is saturated with humor and memorable detail. . . . Love’s Next Meeting makes a major contribution to histories of sexuality, queer politics, the Left, and American culture. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and passionately written." * Journal of the History of Sexuality * "Pithy and provocative, Love’s Next Meeting is the culmination of Lecklider’s years long deep dive into the question of why sexual dissidents were attracted to the Old Left even though the Left officially rejected them." * Against the Current: A Socialist Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Deviant Politics 1. "Flaunting the Transatlantic Breeze": Sexual Dissidents on the Left 2. "After Sex, What?": Politicizing Sex on the Left 3. "To Be One with the People": Homosexuality and the Cultural Front 4. "If I Can Die under You": Homosexuality and Labor on the Left 5. "Socialism & Sex Is What I Want": Women, Gender, and Sexual Dissidence in the 1930s and 1940s 6. "Playing the Queers": Homosexuality in Proletarian Literature 7. "We Who Are Not Ill": Queer Antifascism 8. "The Secret Element of Their Vice": Deviant Politics in the Cold War List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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Grodsky Public Affairs Righteous Might
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evolution of the British Party System 18851940
Book SynopsisBy the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure, electoral competition and constitutional thought.In the House of Commons the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the radical answer to the Conservative Party. In the country at large the complex web of Victorian social, regional and religious allegiances gave way to a cruder but more dynamic model of modern political loyalties.The transformation at Westminster and in the constituencies is surveyed in relation to changes to the franchise (including the vote for women), class consciousness, political organisation and doctrine. The comprehensive account explains the varying fortunes of the parties in the face of maTrade Review'a highly successful book...as an introduction to early twentieth-century British politics [it] could hardly be bettered' HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements XI 1 Introduction 1 Notes and references 4 2 Development of the electoral system before 1914 6 2.1 The Franchise and Redistribution Acts, 1884-1885 6 2.2 The elimination of corruption and intimidation 10 2.3 The franchise in Britain after 1885: 'Democracy tempered by registration' 13 Notes and references 18 3 The rise of modern party organisation 21 3.1 Extra-parliamentary organisation 22 3.2 Linking the grassroots to the leaders: the National Union and the Liberal caucus 28 3.3 The emergence of a central party bureaucracy 31 3.4 Discipline and control in the parliamentary parties 34 3.5 The rise of national campaigning, manifestos and programmatic politics 36 Notes and references 38 4 Party realignment and Unionist ascendancy, 1885-1905 41 4.1 Gladstonian Liberalism and the schism of 1886 41 4.2 Liberal malaise, 1886-1902 44 4.3 Liberals, Labour and the birth of the Progressive Alliance 50 4.4 Lord Salisbury and the Unionist alliance 55 4.5 Unionist decline and Liberal revival, 1900-1906 61 Notes and references 64 5 The challenge of New Liberalism, 1906-1914 69 5.1 The reformulation of Liberalism 69 5.2 The conversion of the Liberal party 71 5.3 Liberals and the politics of taxation 74 5.4 Unionist crisis and the politics of taxation, 1906-1910 77 viii Contents 5.5 Labour, the Progressive Alliance and the New Liberalism 80 5.6 Rumours of a 'Strange Death', 1910-1914 84 5.7 The electorate and the New Liberalism 88 5.8 Conclusion: the significance of the New Liberalism 92 Notes and references 94 6 War and the party system 99 6.1 Liberalism divided 99 6.2 Liberal ideology and the strains of war 105 6.3 Conservatism and the challenge of war 109 6.4 Collapse of the Progressive Alliance and Labour's bid for independence 112 6.5 Labour, 'socialism' and the impact of war 115 6.6 The 'coupon' election of December 1918 118 Notes and references 120 7 The Lloyd George Coalition, 1918-1922 124 7.1 The impact of Labour 124 7 .2 Coalition, reconstruction and resistance to socialism 127 7.3 Slump and the destruction of 'national unity' 129 7.4 Anti-socialist 'fusion' and the realignment of the centre-right 132 7.5 The fall of the Coalition 133 Notes and references 138 8 Three-party confusion in the 1920s 140 8.1 Explanations for party realignment 140 8.2 The 'franchise factor' and the Fourth Reform Act of 1918 142 8.3 The organisational factor in Labour rise and Liberal decline 146 8.4 Labour, Liberals and the battle of ideas 149 8.5 The impact of the first Labour government 156 8.6 The foundations of Conservative electoral hegemony 159 8. 7 The 1929 election: the end of the three-party era 168 Notes and references 171 9 The National Governments 176 9.1 The party crisis, 1929-1931 176 9 .2 The political crisis and the National Government 179 9.3 The character of the National Government 183 9 .4 The collapse of independent Liberalism 188 9.5 Labour responses to 1931: leadership, power and organisation 189 9.6 Labour's ideological response to 1931 191 9.7 Party politics and the 'impact of Hitler' 195 9.8 The failure of political extremism in the 1930s 197 9. 9 Electoral competition and the onset of war 199 Notes and references 202 Select Bibliography General background histories The electoral system Party development and management Elections and electoral behaviour Party histories: the Conservatives The Labour party The Liberal party Extremist parties Coalition and 'National Government' Party doctrine and thought Index
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Diversified Publishing Prequel
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Labour Party Since 1945
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical overview of the changing Labour Party in postwar Britain. Adopting a thematic approach within a structured, chronological framework, the book revolves around one central question: what has the Party been about and what specific objectives has it striven to realize? The author examines the so-called transformation from Old Labour to New Labour, and not only identifies the key stages in its evolution, bur highlights, too, the major determinants of the change.Trade Review"This is an unpretentious, straightforward book intended as a student text and it fits the bill very well. Eric Shaw writes clearly and in this book he distils his detailed knowledge of the Labour Party and the issues and questions that arise in its post-war history into a readable and clearly organised account. It should certainly be on all relevant reading lists." David Denver, EPOP NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface. 1. The Early Years 1900-1945. 2. The Triumph of Labour 1945-51. 3. The Rise of Keynesian Social Democracy. 4. Keynesian Social Democracy in Power 1964-1970. 5. Keynesian Social Democracy in Retreat 1970-74. 6. The Unravelling of Keynesian Social Democracy 1974-1979. 7. Time of Troubles 1979-1987. 8. The Abandonment of Keynesian Social Democracy 1987-95. Conclusion: Labour Old and New. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd British General Elections Since 1945
Book SynopsisIn this fully revised and updated edition of British General Elections since 1945 David Butler chronicles the demeanour and result of each post-war election. He also draws on the most recent research to examine how much the way in which elections have been stages and fought has altered, with press conferences, advertising, opinion polls and media events transforming the electoral process. In considering these issues alongside other aspects - the law, the constituencies, the electoral system itself, voter behaviour - Dr Butler provides an invaluable guide to the continuities and change which have characterized British general elections for two generations.Table of Contents1. Continuity and Change. 2. Thirteen General Elections. 3. The Legal Framework. 4. Constituencies, Seats and Votes. 5. Franchise, Turnout and Voting Behaviour. 6. The Timing of Elections and the Party Battle. 7. Changing MPs. 8. The Cost of Elections. 9. The National Campaign. 10. The Media. 11. Advertising and Polls. 12. Local Electioneering. 13. Conclusion.
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Harvard University Press Talk Radios America
Book SynopsisThe march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.Trade ReviewAt long last, Brian Rosenwald has filled a scholarly vacuum by offering a cogent, well-researched, and entertaining explanation of how Donald Trump was elected president. The conventional wisdom that Trump won by swinging 80,000 voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan might be factually accurate, but is too simplistic. Instead, Rosenwald proves that the outcome of the 2016 election was three decades in the making, made possible by the emergence of a candidate perfectly suited to capitalize on an environment created by the titans of talk radio. This is the book that provides proper context for the greatest election upset in modern American history. -- Michael Smerconish, Sirius XM and CNN hostRejecting claims that the medium acted as a Republican puppet, [Rosenwald] describes a curious relationship between the Grand Old Party and talk radio hosts, one that has had seriously deleterious consequences for American political life. * Financial Times *[Rosenwald] argues that the profit motive radicalized talk radio and with it the Republican Party…Because conflict and scaremongering drove ratings and ratings drove profits, the more extreme the hosts became, the more listeners they gained, and the more money they made. As they amassed power and influence, the hosts could demand fealty from the politicians they were discussing every day. -- Eric Alterman * The Nation *Moving the discussion of contemporary conservative media out of the realm of shadowy conspiracy theory and into the sunlight of deeply researched historical investigation, Brian Rosenwald shows how right-wing talk radio moved from the margins to the mainstream and warped American politics in the process. This book will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about restoring the quality of American democratic debate. -- Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch: The Biography—Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American IconBefore there were social media echo chambers, before there was Fox News, there was Rush Limbaugh and his kin. Brian Rosenwald has told the definitive story of how a squad of outrageous, rule-breaking right-wing radio hosts set the Republican Party agenda and then overtook the party itself. Scholarly and yet eminently readable, this book is indispensable for understanding the world conservative media wrought. -- David Greenberg, Rutgers UniversityUpending conventional wisdom, Brian Rosenwald’s deeply researched book offers an incisive account of how conservative talk radio transformed American politics, altering the relationships between Congressional leaders and rank-and-file members, between activists and the party establishment, and between the demands of entertainment and the process of policymaking. -- Bruce J. Schulman, Boston UniversityThe rise of conservative talk radio has changed American politics and American life, and Brian Rosenwald tells a careful and comprehensive story of its rise and its mushrooming influence. From Rush Limbaugh’s humble beginnings to the election of Donald Trump, Talk Radio’s America shows through careful research and subtle argument how talk radio moved well beyond entertainment and grievance to change the role and makeup of mainstream media, the kinds of stories Americans consume, and the pliable nature of truth. A superb guide to one of the most potent forces in modern political history. -- John Dickerson, 60 Minutes correspondentA brisk, well-researched history of the rise and transformation of talk radio…A vigorous analysis of contemporary politics. * Kirkus Reviews *Demonstrate[s] that broadcasters like…Rush Limbaugh were just as important to building the Republican Party as deified political figures like George Wallace, William Buckley, or Pat Buchanan. Indeed, far from being a mere tool of the Republican Party, talk radio is revealed…as the dominant explanation for that party’s continued existence, an essential precondition of the far right’s cultural dominance today. * New Republic *Important and groundbreaking…Expertly shows how disparate strands in the American political landscape converged in the late 1980s to help make talk radio the potent political force it would become…A must-read for anybody hoping to understand how Trump captured the Republican presidential nomination. * Washington Examiner *Rosenwald takes a look at the rise of conservative radio from a variety of perspectives and offers a clear study of how policies, market forces, personalities, and timing played a role in creating a movement…The book is interesting from beginning to end. -- John M. Bublic * European Legacy *An informative account of talk radio and its impact on politics and policymaking. -- Glenn C. Altshuler * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *In his 2016 presidential run, Donald Trump utilized styles of rhetoric similar to those of talk radio hosts in order to garner a strong base of loyal followers and rile up political activism amongst his supporters…This book could prove useful for those interested how media—both the form factor and the communicative aspects—affect political standing. -- Tyler M. Wilson * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *Documents Limbaugh’s formative role in turning an old technology into an instrument of power that transformed the Republican Party and political discourse in the United States…An important book…Goes a long way to documenting how an old medium helped create a new politics in the United States and paved the way for Donald Trump’s presidency. -- Vincent Mosco * IEEE Technology and Society Magazine *
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Harvard University Press Sustainable Utopias
Book SynopsisJennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War. Describing public art and history projects, alongside novel community-centered political institutions, Allen shows how activists invited ordinary people to build a radically new society free from alienation and disenfranchisement.Trade ReviewJennifer Allen’s splendid book on the survival and transformation of utopia in late–twentieth-century Germany announces a brilliant career. Far from dying, hope was rehabilitated in surprising places and projects across the divide of 1989, sheltered in fascinating new forms she intrepidly reconstructs in luminous prose. Those forms matter for their own sakes, and because the future does not just threaten catastrophe and desperation. It might also bring us within reach of stupendous and unexpected opportunity. -- Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistorySustainable Utopias provides innovative insights into creative social movements that brought up a new artistic and democratic ‘history from below.’ Allen brilliantly analyzes different ways of coping with the German past that have shaped both the present and visions of the future. If you want to know how a new memory culture was created in the streets of Berlin, read this book. -- Frank Bösch, University of PotsdamAllen takes us deep into the intellectual world of West Germany’s left-liberal activist milieu. Against the backdrop of Helmut Kohl’s 1980s, she compellingly uncovers the utopian projects pursued by ‘spatial interventionist’ artists, the West Berlin History Workshop, and the Green Party. Sustainable Utopias is essential reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary Germany. -- Astrid M. Eckert, author of West Germany and the Iron CurtainIn this excitingly multifaceted study of Germany in the 1980s and 1990s, Allen combines art and aesthetics with the social history of intellectuals and the emergent political forms of the time. She sees history’s epistemologies as intricately grounded not just in the period’s cultural and political climate, but in the working contexts and working practices historians and artists tried to develop. -- Geoff Eley, University of MichiganA fascinating, original study of ‘sustainable’ utopias in German society from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. Allen examines three utopian networks never before brought together under the same narrative umbrella. Instead of trying to create ‘heaven on earth,’ they had more adaptive and limited aims achievable not through the wholesale transformation of society but through repeatable micro-actions in small-scale venues. Based on impressive research, this book is an important contribution to the scholarship on German utopian thought and contemporary cultural and political history. -- Rudy J. Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Emeritus
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Harvard University Press From the Other Shore Russian Social Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. The Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia, functioned abroad in the West for a generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia, and succeeded in impressing their views on social democratic parties and Western thinking about the U.S.S.R.Trade Review[An] important new book...From the Other Shore raises the question of what would have happened if the Mensheviks had prevailed in 1917. Would they have gone the route of the Bolsheviks, laying the groundwork for the repressive totalitarianism to follow? Or would they have found another path committing themselves to a radical transformation of Russian society while at the same time...respecting the political liberties of their opponents?...Although Liebich identifies closely with Martov's group, he avoids the temptation of reading back into its history an early and absolute division from the Bolsheviks...Liebich asks us to see the Mensheviks as something more than political losers. They stand, he writes, 'at the very heart of the crisis of Marxism.' Our judgment of them as political actors and thinkers--as a possible alternative leadership for a revolutionary Russia--can help determine whether Marxism has any legitimate claim as a serious and honorable political tradition or deserves nothing better than its current consignment to the dustbin of history. -- Maurice Isserman * New York Times Book Review *This book is a tremendous piece of scholarship, charting the evolution of the Russian Menshevik leaders during 40 years of exile and their influence within the wider social-democratic parties, especially in Germany and Austria for uncovering the extent of their influence and the significance of their analyses, Professor Liebich deserves our gratitude. -- Paul Hampton * Workers' Liberty *While the Bolsheviks have long had books--even libraries--devoted to them, the Mensheviks have had to wait until now for a first-rate account of their work and fate. André Liebich...has finally done justice to a group which history had dealt with unjustly. -- Theodore Draper * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPart 1 The Menshevik Family: a group portrait; a portrait gallery. Part 2 1903-1921: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks - a phenomenology of factions, the second congress and its aftermath, revolutionary rehearsal, after the revolution (1905), into the Great War; from exile to exile - war, revolution, facing Bolshevik power, within the party, personal itineraries. Part 3 1921-1933: inside and outside - settling into exile, the political economy of NEP, the nature of NEP Russia, the party underground, watching the Kremlin; Mensheviks and the wider world - into the international arena, Menshevik foreign relations, fraternal parties; Stalin's revolution - the great turn, socialist debates, the Menshevik trial. Part 4 1933-1965: hard times - life in France, contacts, the totalitarian nexus, purges and politics, search for unity, division and defeat; sea change - new roads and old, the last of the Martov line, the end of the foreign delegation, waging the Cold War, the American file, the final campaign; conclusion.
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Harvard University Press Leftism Reinvented
Book SynopsisAnalyzing left-leaning parties in the U.S., Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Stephanie Mudge shows that the left lost voters’ loyalty in part because of the changing worldview of party experts. Keynesian economists in the 1960s who spoke for managing the economy gave way in the 1980s to economists advocating the advancement of markets.Trade ReviewHow were the parties of the center-left converted from Keynesian technocracy to third-way neoliberalism? Stephanie Mudge presents a highly original account featuring changes in the economics profession leading to the displacement of economic experts in government policy and party politics by political consultants and spin doctors. Covering the United States and four European countries, the book adds importantly to our understanding of recent political history, the transformation of left-wing political parties, and today’s crisis of democratic politics. -- Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesWhy is the Left failing everywhere? Because back in the 1990s, left-wing parties gave up on growing their core constituencies, turning instead to a cadre of technicians. Mudge argues that success of center-left parties rested upon their ability to ‘win, represent, and shape how people think.’ This latter goal used to be the province of ‘economist theoreticians’ who embraced a ‘Keynesian ethic.’ But as economics changed, so did the visions of the economists who guided left parties. Why the Left is dying owes much to their interventions. -- Mark Blyth, Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown UniversityStephanie L. Mudge has written a magisterial account explaining how neoliberalism came to be a dominant way of thinking among the European and American Left. Through a detailed and rich sociological account, she explains that leftist parties changed their way of seeing and wanting to shape the social world because of their shifting relationship to economic knowledge. Economic experts, far from the original organic intellectuals of labor movements, became the mediators of ideological transformation, shaping party positions and confirming neoliberalism as the current version of progressive politics. This is a necessary book for everyone with an interest in progressive politics. -- Jenny Andersson, Co-Director, Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo)Leftism Reinvented provides a wealth of information, and very few scholars exhibit Mudge’s mastery of the economic policies across so many parties over such a stretch of time…It is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand our current political predicament. -- Edwin Amenta * American Journal of Sociology *
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Princeton University Press Our Army Soldiers Politics and American
Book SynopsisConventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political. This title reveals that the rank-and-file army is not nearly as homogeneous as we think - or as politically active - and that political attitudes across the ranks are undergoing a substantial shift.Trade Review"There is a general perception that US military institutions are heavily dominated by the Republican Party and, consequently, an unacceptable number of army officers have combined their political and professional identities, which has created a sense of discomfort among the American public. Dempsey presents a comprehensive, well-researched assessment of the political and social attitudes of members of the US Army on social and political issues. This in-depth analysis explains the similarities and differences in opinions and attitudes on social and political issues among the military and the civilian population."--Choice "Jason K. Dempsey's Our Army adds to the work of military sociology in important ways and is useful fodder for thought for soldiers and civilians... Dempsey has written a powerful book that deserves a place on the same shelf as the works of Janowitz and Huntington."--COL Gregory Fontenot, Army Magazine "Through its careful assessment of results from a unique, original survey instrument, Our Army offers an important corrective to the conventional view of an increasingly conservative, politically active army that threatens to upend established norms of civil-military relations. It offers a wealth of new data for scholars to explore, and it suggests avenues for future research that will further bolster our understanding of the army and its intricate relations with the political branches of government."--Douglas L. Kriner, Public Opinion QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi List of Tables xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Citizenship and Service: A 2004 Survey of Army Personnel 5 The 2004 West Point Preelection Survey 7 Chapter 2. Soldiers and Politics 10 Historical Overview 10 From the Revolution to Civil War 10 Post-Civil War 13 Post-World War II 15 Post-Vietnam 20 After the Cold War 23 Implications for Civil-Military Relations 27 Chapter 3. An Overview of Army Demographics 34 The Army's Rank Structure 34 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity 35 Education and Income 38 Family and Region 40 The Virtual Army and Virtual Officer Corps 42 Chapter 4. Social and Political Attitudes 45 Reasons for Joining 45 Views of the Army 47 Use of Military Force 48 Defense and Foreign Policy Spending 52 The Economy and Domestic Spending 54 Social Issues 60 Attitudes toward Issues of Gender and Race 63 Trust and Efficacy in Government 65 Conclusion 68 Chapter 5. Conservatism 70 Self-Identification 70 Opting In and Opting Out? 82 Social and Economic Dimensions of Conservatism 85 Conclusion 92 Chapter 6. Party Affiliation in the Army 95 Deriving Party Affiliation 95 Generic Party Identification 98 Identification with the Republican and Democratic Parties 101 Determinants of Republican Identification 105 The Meaning of Party Affiliation in the Army 109 Soldier and Officer Differences 111 Military and Civilian Differences 111 Republican-Democratic Differences 115 Party Affiliation and Foreign Policy 119 Conclusion 124 Chapter 7. Political Participation 127 Voting 129 Displaying Support 131 Donating Money 131 Determinants of Political Activity 132 Mobility and Ease of Voting 137 Efficacy and Political Participation 139 Partisanship and Political Participation 140 Army Culture 144 Self-Selection Effect 146 Conclusion 149 Chapter 8. The Army's Next Generation 152 Existing Research on Cadets and Socialization 153 Self-Selection 154 The Limits of Socialization 155 Shaping Political Attitudes? 157 The 2004 Cadet Preelection Survey 160 Cadet Demographics 161 The Composition and Role of West Point Instructors 164 Ideology and Party Affiliation 165 Indoctrination or Self-Selection? 166 Demographics 167 Institutional Pressure? 169 Perceptions and Expectations 172 Conclusion 174 Chapter 9. Army Attitudes in 2004 and Beyond 177 Conventional Wisdom and the Reality of Army Attitudes 178 A Generational Shift 184 Chapter 10. The Way Forward 187 The Future of American Civil-Military Relations 187 Leveraging the Institution for Political Gain 191 Fulfilling Professional Obligations 191 Translating Service into Privilege 192 Lessons from the Army's Birthday 194 Update: The 2008 Election 197 Afterword 201 Thoughts on Sparta ... 201 ... and Babylon 203 Appendix A: Citizenship and Service: A 2004 Survey of Army Personnel 207 Survey Method 207 Survey Response 210 Survey Weighting 214 Survey Instrument: C&S Survey 215 Appendix B: The 2004 Cadet Preelection Survey 223 Survey Instrument: The 2004 Cadet Preelection Survey 224 Appendix C: Comparison Surveys 240 Appendix D: The Virtual Army and Virtual Officer Corps 243 Appendix E: Rules Governing Political Participation of Members of the Army 245 Appendix F: Adjutant General's Absentee Voting Message 247 Bibiliography 249 Index 259
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Princeton University Press Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State
Book SynopsisOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. This title debunks these and other political myths. It includes easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. It is suitable for those seeking to make sense of fractured political landscape.Trade Review"Gelman and a group of fellow political scientists crunch numbers and draw graphs, arriving at a picture that refutes the [idea] ... of poor red-staters voting Republican against their economic interests. Instead, Gelman persuasively argues, the poor in both red states and blue still mostly vote Democratic, and the rich, nationally speaking, overwhelmingly vote Republican."--Leo Carey, New Yorker "Commentators on both the left and the right have theorized about why working-class Kansas farmers and latte-sipping Maryland suburbanites vote against their economic interests... The real paradox, [Gelman] says, is that while rich states lean Democratic, rich people generally vote Republican; while poor states lean Republican, poor people generally vote Democratic."--Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Book World "This is the Freakonomics-style analysis that every candidate and campaign consultant should read."--Robert Sommer, New York Observer "Gelman works his way, state by state, to help us better understand the relationship of class, culture, and voting. The book is a terrific read and offers much insight into the changing electoral landscape."--Sudhir Venkatesh, Freakonomics blog "[T]his book already analyzes far more data than do most. On that note, it is worth lauding another of this book's strengths: its rich graphical presentation of evidence. Its numerous figures often allow the reader to see the data and to draw one's own inferences, and they render the book accessible to those with little statistical training."--Gabriel S. Lenz, Public Opinion Quarterly "Although the book is stronger on description than interpretation, it raises important questions and presents its findings in a clear and readable fashion that encourages replication, critique, and elaboration... Red State, Blue State shows that much can be learned from applying serious quantitative analysis to popular ideas. It debunks popular misconceptions, but also reveals the limitations of most academic analyses."--David L. Weakliem, International Review of Modern SociologyTable of ContentsPART I: THE PARADOX 1 Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Rich State, Poor State 8 Chapter 3: How the Talking Heads Can Be So Confused 24 PART II: WHAT'S GOING ON 41 Chapter 4: Income and Voting over Time 43 Chapter 5: Inequality and Voting 58 Chapter 6: Religious Reds and Secular Blues 76 Chapter 7: The United States in Comparative Perspective 94 PART III: WHAT IT MEANS 109 Chapter 8: Polarized Parties 111 Chapter 9: Competing to Build a Majority Coalition 137 Chapter 10: Putting It All Together 165 Afterword The 2008 Election 179 Notes and Sources 197 Index 241
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Princeton University Press Fighting for the Speakership The House and the
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the US House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Editors' Picks for 2013 "An excellent look at the history of majority party leadership in the House."--Choice "[T]his is, overall, a sound and illuminating analysis."--R. Scott Burnet, HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix List of Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of House Officers in the Antebellum Era 25 Chapter 3 Organizational Politics under the Secret Ballot 56 Chapter 4 Bringing the Selection of House Officers into the Open 76 Chapter 5 Shoring Up Partisan Control: The Speakership Elections of 1839 and 1847 109 Chapter 6 Partisan Tumult on the Floor: The Speakership Elections of 1849 and 1855-1856 151 Chapter 7 The Speakership and the Rise of the Republican Party 193 Chapter 8 Caucus Governance and the Emergence of the Organizational Cartel, 1861-1891 241 Chapter 9 The Organizational Cartel Persists, 1891-2011 274 Chapter 10 Conclusion 303 Appendixes House Officer Elections and Caucus Nominations 323 Appendix 1 Summary of House Organization, First-112th Congresses (1789-2011) 324 Appendix 2 Election of House Speaker, First-112th Congresses 332 Appendix 3 Election of House Clerk, First-112th Congresses 370 Appendix 4 Election of House Printer, 15th-36th Congresses 391 Appendix 5 Summary of Democratic and Republican Caucus Nominations for Speaker, 38th-112th Congresses 398 Appendix 6 Democratic and Republican Caucus Nominations for Speaker, 38th-112th Congresses 403 References 421 Index 439
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Princeton University Press Dont Blame Us
Book SynopsisDon't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the hiTrade Review"Don't Blame Us is a very readable and informative book."--Choice "This brilliantly argued and beautifully written book was ... eye-opening for me both as a scholar and a product of the world Geismer reveals in all of its complexity."--Elise Lemire, New England Quarterly "[An] exhaustively researched, compelling book... Geismer presents a fresh and much-needed portrait of a middle-class white suburbia n the most Democratic of states--Massachusetts--that forces us to reconsider easy teleological narratives of liberal 'decline' and conservative ascendancy."--Jonathan Bell, American Historical Review "[A] provocative and well-researched book... Broad scope and impressive relevance... Particularly impressive about Don't Blame Us is the way Geismer so thoroughly considers the many factors that went into the making of what might be termed the American urban crisis."--Kenneth T. Jackson, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Part I Suburban Activism 1 No Ordinary Suburbs 19 2 Good Neighbors 43 3 A Multiracial World 71 4 Grappling with Growth 97 5 Political Action for Peace 123 Part II Massachusetts Liberals 6 A New Center 149 7 Open Suburbs vs. Open Space 173 8 Tightening the Belt 199 9 No One Home to Answer the Phone 227 10 From Taxachusetts to the Massachusetts Miracle 251 Epilogue 281 Notes 289 Index 357
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Princeton University Press Partisan Balance
Book SynopsisWith three independent branches, a legislature divided into two houses, and many diverse constituencies, it is remarkable that the federal government does not collapse in permanent deadlock. Yet, this system of government has functioned for well over two centuries, even through such heated partisan conflicts as the national health-care showdown andTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association "Any time you read something David Mayhew has written, you end up learning something. His latest book, Partisan Balance, is no exception to that rule."--Matthew Yglesias, Matthew Yglesias blog "Armed with impressive datasets and thoughtful analysis, Mayhew makes the case that our constitutional system usually works the way that we want it to work... Mayhew is well respected by his peers, and Partisan Balance reminds the reader why he is such a trusted voice in political science... Readers wanting explanation and evidence for why the U.S. Constitution and the political system it established remain robust and vibrant will find many rewards in Mayhew's latest book."--Books & Culture "In this work, Mayhew pursues the question of whether presidential requests are affected by persistent partisan biases of the Senate and the House... This is an analysis of particular interest to those concerned about the dynamics of presidential-congressional interactions over legislation since WWII."--Choice "Typical of a David Mayhew contribution, this book is detailed and meticulous in its analysis, impeccably written and argued, and provides a range of thoughtful, provocative, and counter-intuitive claims. It is a worthy addition to Mayhew's esteemed cannon."--Paul Frymer, Political Science Quarterly "[Mayhew's] data set is quite rich, providing insights and posing issues that should keep political historians busy for some time."--Roger H. Davidson, Congress & the Presidency "What makes the book an enjoyable read is the care with which Mayhew outlines the fare of each proposal, his almost stream-of-consciousness discussion of how to handle methodological conundrums and ambiguous results, and his crisp conclusions once all avenues have been exhausted... This author's work usually leads me to more questions than answers, but this is of course a sign of a stimulating book."--Robin Kolodny, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii CHAPTER 1: The Electoral Bases 1 CHAPTER 2: President and Congress 34 CHAPTER 3: House and Senate I 80 CHAPTER 4: House and Senate II 121 CHAPTER 5: Reform 165 APPENDIX: Sources for Presidential Proposals 191 Index 215
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Princeton University Press Change They Cant Believe In
Book SynopsisAre Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative argument--that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American poliTrade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "A scathing analysis of the Tea Party movement, linking it in spirit to the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. Taking today's conservative populists to be dangerous and their ideas self-incriminating, the authors speculate that Tea Party supporters may perceive of social change as subversion. Based on research and interviews, they suggest racism, desire for social dominance ... drives the Tea Party."--Publishers Weekly "Change They Can't Believe In offers valuable empirical data on the Tea Party, and its focus on supporters' antagonism toward Obama is critical to understanding the movement."--Michael O'Donnell, New Republic "[A] rigorous scholarly investigation of the tea party... Parker and Barreto make the case that tea party supporters are driven above all by 'anxiety incited by Obama as President.' Intuitively, this may already make sense to many readers, but the authors muster the evidence in support, dividing and subdividing different categories of political activity and belief to arrive at a firm basis for their conclusion... [S]upported by reasoned facts in place of political passions."--Kirkus Reviews "[Parker and Barreto's] statistically informed analysis helps us understand the Tea Party's priorities, its fervor, and its contempt for compromise."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "In Change They Can't Believe In, Parker and Barreto examine the emergence of the Tea Party in the wake of the Obama presidency... In addition to marshaling a great deal of original data, the authors capably place the Tea Party movement in a historical context."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Preface and Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION Who Is the Tea Party and What Do They Want? 1 1 Toward a Theory of the Tea Party 20 2 Who Likes Tea? Sources of Support for the Tea Party 66 3 Exploring the Tea Party's Commitment to Freedom and Patriotism 102 4 Does the Tea Party Really Want Their Country Back? 153 5 The Tea Party and Obamaphobia - Is the Hostility Real or Imagined? 190 6 Can You Hear Us Now? Why Republicans Are Listening to the Tea Party 218 CONCLUSION 241 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 261 Appendix 273 Notes 319 Index 365
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Princeton University Press Violent Victors
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association""Shortlisted for the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Prize, Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association""Violent Victors is a rich, rigorous and comprehensive book that delves into the complex and nuanced relationship between wartime violence and postwar electoral politics, transitional justice and governance."---Laia Balcells, International Affairs"Articulates a fascinating and novel puzzle. . . . [and provides] a thorough consideration of alternative explanations."---Michael K. Miller, Perspectives on Politics"A must-read."---Mauricio Rivera, Journal of Peace Research"[A] penetrating study of founding elections in postwar societies. . . . [Violent Victors] is required reading for anyone interested in peacebuilding, justice, democracy, and governance after civil war."---Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, Peace & Change
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University Press of Kansas Getting Right with Reagan The Struggle for True
Book SynopsisTo try to get a clearer picture of what the real Ronald Reagan legacy is, in this book Marcus Witcher details conservatives' frequently tense relationship with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and explores how they created the latter-day Reagan myth.Trade ReviewThe legend is that Ronald Reagan unified the GOP and led it to a long string of successes. This outstanding book tells the true story, which is far more complex and fascinating. With depth, balance, and subtlety, Witcher explains how Reagan went from being the leader of a fractious party to a symbol of its aspirations. Getting Right with Reagan makes a major contribution to the study of American political history, offering rich insights into the history and political uses of the Reagan myth." - John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of Politics, Claremont McKenna College"Marcus Witcher has written a bold and provocative book. Not everyone will be persuaded by his revisionist portrayal of President Reagan as a ‘pragmatist,’ or by Witcher’s contention that conservative ‘purists’ since the 1980s have constructed an idealized and mythical Reagan who owed his success to an unbending devotion to conservative principles. But readers of this volume will gain a deeper appreciation of Reagan’s immense and continuing impact on the mental landscape of the American Right." - George H. Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945"The American conservative movement’s adoration for Ronald Reagan is seemingly limitless and only seems to grow with each passing decade. Yet Reagan was not the unwavering standard-bearer of conservative purity that his contemporary admirers imagine-though his pragmatism and flexibility were reasons for his success. In this valuable study, Marcus Witcher provides a more nuanced picture of Reagan’s presidency, explains how conservative views of the fortieth president evolved in the years that followed, and shows the consequences of the mythical Reagan." - George Hawley, author of Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism"Marcus M. Witcher’s Getting Right with Reagan is a brilliant analysis of the US conservative revolution of the 1980s and beyond. It’s essential reading for anybody interested in the Cold War and the American political system. Highly recommended!" - Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University and author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space RaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Evolution of Conservatives' Perception of ReaganPart I: Conservative Frustration with Reagan, 1945-19881. The Origins and Evolution of Reagan's Economic Policies2. The Battle for Fiscal Conservatism: Supply-Siders vs. Budget Hawks3. The Origins of the New Right and the Seeds of Future Frustrations4. The Battle for America's Soul: Conservative Disillusion with Reagan on Social Issues5. AIDS, the New Right and Reagan's Response6. Neoconservatives, the New Right, and Reagan's First Two Years of Foreign Policy7. The Year of Fear: Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of America's Foreign Policy8. The Battle for the Cold War: Conservative Frustration with the INF TreatyPart II: The Legacy of Evolving Mythology of President Reagan: 1988-20169. Recasting Reagan: How the Fortieth President Framed His Legacy, 1989-199410. Remembering Reagan: The Reagan Legacy in Conservative Politics, 1994-199611. Memorializing Reagan: Enshrining the Reagan Legacy, 1996-200012. Reinventing Reagan: George W. Bush and the Emergence of the Reagan Myth, 2000-200413. Reconstructing Reagan: How the Conservatives Created a Mythical Reagan, 2004-200814. Resurrecting Reagan: The Tea Party Movement and the Manifestation of the Reagan Myth, 2008-20169Conclusion: Beyond Reagan?NotesBibliographyIndex
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University Press of Kansas The Last Liberal Republican
Book SynopsisPresents a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. A member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, John Roy Price’s memoir makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency.Trade ReviewAre you ready for some revisionism? Price's Nixon was trying to bring the country together. He understood that politics was 'poetry' - you needed more than good policy positions. But good ones he had. His domestic policies would have ended the financial incentives to break up low-income families and would have kept catastrophic health issue from bankrupting middle-class families. We see Nixon doing the right thing because it is the right thing. This book is thought-provoking from beginning to end." - Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, author of Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974"John Roy Price's The Last Liberal Republican is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Nixon presidency as well as the presidential/congressional relationship as it relates to domestic policymaking. Price's memoir not only explains the domestic policy agenda during a seminal point in American history but also shows how a Republican president worked with a Democratic Congress to revise and expand parts of the New Deal and Great Society agendas. Price's ability to illustrate the policy battles as they played out on the political frontlines makes this book essential reading." - Lori Cox Han, author of Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan"For all those who thought there was nothing more-nothing new-to say about Richard Nixon, John Roy Price has a surprise, and an important one. Here is a Nixon seldom seen, a Nixon leaning left even as he moved the Republicans right, a Nixon worried about his place in history even as he was soiling his place in history. No biography of the thirty-seventh president written in the remainder of this century can be unaffected by this vital and indispensable book." - David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning nationally syndicated columnist and former executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Republicans and Race The GOPs Frayed
Book SynopsisNo segment of the American electorate is more reliably Democratic than African Americans. The GOP, meanwhile, remains nearly an all-white party. Timothy Thurber illuminates the deep roots of this gulf by exploring the relationship between African Americans and the Republican Party from the end of World War II to Richard Nixon’s presidency.Trade Review"A monumental work. For decades to come, this will be the definitive study of the Republican Party and race in the years following World War II. It is exhaustively researched, meticulously written, and slays a bucketful of myths on the subject."—David Nichols, author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution"A fresh examination, full of new insights and great nuance. Readers will learn that many of the stereotypes about the Republican Party and race just are not accurate."—Donald T. Critchlow, author of The Conservative Ascendancy"Rich in detail, incident, and insight, Thurber’s splendid work explains the misperceptions and missed opportunities that led to the widening gulf between the Party of Lincoln and the nation’s minorities. A judicious and essential history, full of contemporary resonance."—Geoffrey Kabaservice, author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party"The most deeply researched and nuanced history to date of how the GOP’s national leadership dealt with, or failed to deal with, the African American freedom struggle in the three decades following World War II. Thurber moves far beyond the impressionistic histories of the Republican southern strategy to show how liberal, moderate, and conservative Republicans were arguing over what was to become of Lincoln’s legacy. Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the history behind the common perception today of the GOP as a superannuated party of white folks."—Joseph Crespino, author of Strom Thurmond’s AmericaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Fair Employment Practices Commission, Voting Rights, and Racial Violence 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Reform of the Federal Government 3. “At Sea on This”: Eisenhower and Black Protest 4. Republicans and Civil Rights Legislation, 1952-1960s 5. Five: The GOP, Direct Action, and Racial Policy, 1960-1963 6. The 1964 Civil Rights Act 7. Race and Republican Politics, 1961-1964 8. Civil Rights Policy, 1965-1968 9. The Nixon Synthesis 10. Schools, Voting Rights, and the Supreme Court, 1969-1970s 11. Integration Revisited 12. Economic Policy: Nixon’s First Term 13. A New Republican Majority? 14. Denouement: The GOP and Race, 1973-1974 Epilogue Notes Index A photo section appears following page 204
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Robert H. Michel Leading the Republican House
Book SynopsisIn this book, top congressional scholars, historians, and political scientists provide a compelling picture of Bob Michel and the congressional politics of his day. Marshaling a wealth of biographical, historical, and political detail, they describe Michel’s House of Representatives and how the institution became what it is now.Trade Review"This book provides a valuable “inside baseball” view of how the process works; the book’s grasp of the complexities of congressional prodecures provide a valuable window into how legislation is made."—Congress & the Presidency"An excellent primer on effective congressional leadership. The various authors successfully place the life of Michel and his congressional career within a theoretical analysis of congressional politics and consequently offer a valuable resource."—Choice "Robert H. Michel: Leading the House Minority is a fascinating, richly documented, and authoritative look at Bob Michel’s congressional career. Editors Frank H. Mackaman and Sean Q Kelly have done an excellent job in both selecting contributors and developing a compelling narrative to frame these expertly written chapters. Robert H. Michel: Leading the House Minority should be the first book consulted by readers who are curious about Bob Michel’s legislative legacy."—Jeffrey Crouch, author of The Presidential Pardon Power"Robert H. Michel: Leading the House Minority is a thoughtful collection about an extremely important congressional Republican leader. The authors explore how Michel attempted to balance the needs of good governance with a desire among Republicans to end their permanent minority status in the House."—Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University"This excellent book explains why Bob Michel was the most effective minority leader in the history of the House of Representatives. Its richly detailed and perceptive essays show that he was a legislator in full: a servant for his district, a watchdog of the public treasury, and a masterful tactician who won historic victories without partisan majorities. Anyone who wants to understand congressional leadership should read Robert H. Michel: Leading the House Minority."—John J. Pitney Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of Politics, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of Contents List of Abbreviations Series Foreword, Burdett A. Loomis Preface and Acknowledgments, Frank H. Mackaman and Sean Q. Kelly 1. Robert H. Michel: A Life Preparing for Public Service, Frank H. Mackaman 2. Bob Michel and the Politics of Appropriations, Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly 3. Bob Michel in the Land of Giants: Relationship Politics in the 1980s, Burdett A. Loomis 4. Rising to Leadership in an Era of Political Change: Bob Michel and the 1970s House Minority Party, Scott R. Meinke 5. Michel as Minority Leader: Minority Party Strategies and Tactics in the Postreform House, Douglas B. Harris and matthew N. Green 6. Leading the Minority: Guiding Policy Change through Legislative Waters, Andrew J. Taylor 7. Leading Gently on Taxes, Matthew S. Mendez 8. From “Exhilarating Days” to Pragmatic Politics: Bob Michel’s Leadership in the Budget Process, 1981-1994, Daniel J. Palazzolo 9. Anticipating the Revolution: Michel and Republican Congressional Reform Efforts, Douglas B. Harris 10. Bob Michel and the Legacy of Committee Reform, Colton C. Campbell 11. Bob Michel, Newt Gingrich, and the Republican Leadership Dilemma, C. Lawrence Evans 12. A “Less Pleasant” Election: Bob Michel and the 1982 Congressional Midterms, Robert David Johnson 13. From Expansionism to Protectionism and Back Again: Conditional Incumbency, Disruption, and the Reimagination of Bob Michel’s Representational Style, David C. W. Parker 14. Bob Michel Calls It Quits, Frank H. Mackaman Appendix: Reflections, Mike Johnson, Ray LaHood, and William “Billy” Pitts About Robert H. Michel Bibliography Contributors Index A photo gallery follows page 185
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Last Liberal Republican An Insiders
Book SynopsisA memoir from one of Richard Nixon’s senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price provides firsthand insight into key moments regarding Nixon’s political and policy challenges in the domestic social policy arena.Trade Review"Price's story is more than just a helpful explainer for the more recent thorny and contentious debates over child tax credits. It’s also a portrait of a Republican party that once knew how to broker its own coalition, governing through the power of two wings, a conservative ‘base,’ and an ‘establishment’ leadership."—Law & Liberty"Price’s compelling and persuasive book will be of great interest to those who study domestic policy as well as party politics."—Political Science Quarterly"Contains abundant, telling historical detail and analysis."—Choice "Are you ready for some revisionism? Price’s Nixon was trying to bring the country together. He understood that politics was ‘poetry’—you needed more than good policy positions. But good ones he had. His domestic policies would have ended the financial incentives to break up low-income families and would have kept catastrophic health issues from bankrupting middle-class families. We see Nixon doing the right thing because it is the right thing. This book is thought-provoking from beginning to end."—Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, author of Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969–1974"John Roy Price’s The Last Liberal Republican is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Nixon presidency as well as the presidential/congressional relationship as it relates to domestic policymaking. Price’s memoir not only explains the domestic policy agenda during a seminal point in American history but also shows how a Republican president worked with a Democratic Congress to revise and expand parts of the New Deal and Great Society agendas. Price’s ability to illustrate the policy battles as they played out on the political frontlines makes this book essential reading."—Lori Cox Han, author of Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan"For all those who thought there was nothing more—nothing new—to say about Richard Nixon, John Roy Price has a surprise, and an important one. Here is a Nixon seldom seen, a Nixon leaning left even as he moved the Republicans right, a Nixon worried about his place in history even as he was soiling his place in history. No biography of the thirty-seventh president written in the remainder of this century can be unaffected by this vital and indispensable book."—David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize–winning nationally syndicated columnist and former executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"John Roy Price’s The Last Liberal Republican is an indispensable memoir about working the domestic policy beat for President Richard Nixon. Price writes well, has commanding knowledge of the era, and is determined to set the historical record straight. I consider it a gift to Cold War–era scholarship. Highly recommended!"—Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history, Rice University, and coeditor of The Nixon Tapes"Not so very long ago the Republican Party was the home of serious policy thinkers and doers who believed in the power of the federal government to improve American lives and then exercised that power with skill and finesse. John Roy Price throve in that world, and in these pages he brings it captivatingly to life with fresh, nuanced portraits of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Robert Finch, George Shultz, and many others, including, most remarkably, Richard Nixon. The Last Liberal Republican is just the book we need in our own illiberal time."—Sam Tanenhaus, author of The Death of Conservatism: A Movement and Its Consequences and Whittaker Chambers: A BiographyTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Path to Eisenhower and Nixon: The Struggle for the Soul of the Republican Party 2. The Disruptive Decade: The 1960s and the Formation of the Ripon Society 3. Partisan Strife, San Francisco’s 1964 Convention, and Electoral Calamity 4. 1965-1968: Back to the Center? 5. The Oval Office Has a new Occupant 6. Organizing for Domestic Policymaking: Enter Daniel P. Moynihan 7. the Council for Urban Affairs: The Launch 8. A President in a Hurry 9. “Our Monument”: Laying the Foundation 10. The Battle for Nixon's Decision 11. The Fencing Moves Épées to Sabers 12. The Hunger Issue and the Food Stamp Revolution 13. “A Gamble on Human Nature”: Nixon in a Minority in His Cabinet 14. Briefing Ronald Reagan: The Beginnings of the Conservative Rebellion 15. The Center Does Not Hold—Nixon Folds His Hand on FAP 16. Richard Nixon and a Health Strategy Conclusion Notes Index
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Irish Academic Press Ltd The Tories and Ireland 19101914 Conservative
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Gill Haughey
Book SynopsisWith exclusive access to the Haughey archives, Gary Murphy presents a reassessment of Charles Haughey's life and legacy.Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the Irish body politic, yet the very roots of his success his charisma, his intelligence, his ruthlessness, his secrecy have rendered almost impossible any objective evaluation of his life and work. He is, depending on whom you ask, either the great villain of Irish political life or the benevolent and forward-thinking saviour of a benighted nation.That is, until now. Based on unfettered access to Haughey's personal archives, as well as extensive interviews with over 80 of his peers, rivals, confidantes and relatives, Haughey is a rich and nuanced portrait of a man of prodigious gifts, who, for all his flaws and many contradictions, came to define modern Ireland.A superbly balanced exploration of the life and politics of one of the most fascinating figures in 20th century Ireland.' Professor John HorganAn indispensable read for anyone with an interest in modern Irish history.' David McCullaghOffers much new detail - and not a few surprises - about the personality and career of a political titan who is still, in equal measure, revered and reviled in 21st century Ireland.' Conor Brady
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Manchester University Press The Labour Governments 19641970 Economic Policy v
Book SynopsisA thorough analysis of Britain's economic policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s.Table of Contents1. Labour, modernisation and the external constraint2. Labour and the international economy3. From crisis to crisis: A narrative of policy, 1964–704. Investment and technology5. The labour market and the trade unions6. The productivity issue7. Planning8. Modernising the public sector9. Social justice and economic efficiency10. Conclusions
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers James Madison Rules America
Book SynopsisJames Madison Rules America examines congressional party legislative and electoral strategy in the context of our constitutional separation of powers. In a departure from recent books that have described Congress as ''the broken branch'' or the ''Second Civil War,'' William Connelly argues that partisanship, polarization and the permanent campaign are an inevitable part of congressional politics. The strategic conundrum confronting both parties in the House of Representatives whether to be part of the government or part of the opposition provides evidence of how concretely James Madison''s Constitution governs the behavior of politicians to this day. Drawing on a two-hundred year debate within American political thought among the Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Alexis de Tocqueville and Woodrow Wilson, James Madison Rules America is as topical as current debates over partisan polarization and the permanent campaign, while being grounded in two enduring and important schools of thought wTrade ReviewBill Connelly connects the dots on our seemingly scattershot political panorama and reveals a pattern of recurring conflict and gridlock traceable to the scheme's designer, James Madison. Connelly affirms Madison's wisdom and in so doing gives us a better appreciation for it. -- Donald R. Wolfensberger, Director of The Congress Project, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for CongressIn this outstanding book, William F. Connelly, Jr. reminds us that the Constitution continues to shape national politics. Drawing on his deep knowledge of the theory and practice of American government, he cogently explains that compromise and conflict are both part of our country's genetic code. James Madison Rules America is a timely treatment of a timeless topic. Full of unexpected insights and subtle wisdom, it asks us to look beyond Internet headlines and intellectual fads to the things that really matter: the structures that the Founders put in place more than two centuries ago. This book is a remarkable intellectual achievement, handling profound issues with clarity and erudition. It would be a valuable addition to courses on Congress andAmerican national politics.. -- John J. Pitney Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, Claremont McKenna CollegeMandatory reading for all involved or interested in politics today so they will understand the foundations of our system. -- Jerry Climer, The Congressional Institute, Inc.No author has done more than William Connelly to show how the Constitution guides, structures, and influences the hard realities of Congressional politics. Past and present, theory and practice, and law and politics are joined in this fine volume to reveal the strategies and dilemmas that have confronted congressional party leaders from James Madison and Henry Clay to Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi. -- James W. Ceaser, University of VirginiaIn this lively and provocative interpretation of James Madison’s political thought, Bill Connelly brings a fresh understanding to U.S. Congress today. Congress, he argues, is not broken. Despite its real and apparent imperfections, Madisonian pluralism shapes congressional politics and always has. James Madison Rules America lowers the fever-pitch criticism of Congress and applies a skeptical intelligence to popular ideas for reform. Connelly shows that much of the current hand-wringing about Congress may stem from too little appreciation of Madison’s constitutional handiwork and of politics in general. -- Catherine E. Rudder, George Mason UniversityIn James Madison Rules America, William F. Connelly explains the interplay of political and constitutional forces that shape politics and public policy making in the United States. Connelly finds that the underlying constitutional structure frames the possibilities our political process may contemplate. Viewed through the lens of constitutional theory, the American political system manages to channel partisan forces into public policy outcomes. Every American should read this book. -- Ronald Peters, Regents' Professor Carl Albert Center and Department of Political ScienceIn this outstanding book, William F. Connelly, Jr. reminds us that the Constitution continues to shape national politics. Drawing on his deep knowledge of the theory and practice of American government, he cogently explains that compromise and conflict are both part of our country's genetic code. James Madison Rules America is a timely treatment of a timeless topic. Full of unexpected insights and subtle wisdom, it asks us to look beyond Internet headlines and intellectual fads to the things that really matter: the structures that the Founders put in place more than two centuries ago. This book is a remarkable intellectual achievement, handling profound issues with clarity and erudition. It would be a valuable addition to courses on Congress and American national politics. -- John J. Pitney Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, Claremont McKenna CollegeWe are hearing a great deal about the role of the Constitution and the significance of congressional parties. In James Madison Rules America, William F. Connelly Jr. explains their connection. Drawing on his vast knowledge of contemporary politics and the Founding era, Connelly shows how Madison’s handiwork shapes congressional behavior. Under the separation of powers, he argues persuasively, neither party is ever simply the “government” or the 'opposition'.... [A] lucidly written and thoroughly documented analysis. * National Review, July 2010 *Connelly offers an important new contribution to the study of congressional partisanship. The author, a well-regarded scholar of Congress, political parties, and interest groups, argues that much of the prevailing scholarship and public opinion about Congress as an institution is misinformed because it has not been properly grounded in an understanding of how the Constitution shapes the behavior of the institution. Relying on an extensive array of sources ranging from personal interviews to political theory, Connelly challenges a great deal of the conventional wisdom about Congress. Specifically, he takes exception to the belief that Congress today is defined more by dysfunction than competence and that the cause of this dysfunction stems principally from behavioral sources—namely, the self-interest of elected officials. He counters this perception by arguing that contemporary congressional politics is shaped by constitutional design and that partisanship and conflict are simply by-products of the constitutional system. The choices made by congressional leaders to pursue compromise or conflict, partisanship or pluralism, are influenced by Madisonian design and do not represent a defect of politics that requires remedy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *The book is an important work of scholarship on Congress, the separation of powers, and American political parties. Connelly carefully weaves virtually all major works on Congress into his analysis and thoroughly explains to the reader why James Madison still rules America.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Dedication Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Congressional Party Strategy Chapter 4 Chapter 2: House Democrats: The Wilderness Years Chapter 5 Chapter 3: House Republicans: Newt the Anti-Federalist? Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Alexis de Tocqueville's Congress Chapter 8 Chapter 6: The Federalist Revisited Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Practical Consequences of Constitutional Principle: The 1790s Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Practical Consequences of Constitutional Principle: The 1980s and 1990s Chapter 11 Chapter 9: The Constitution Governs: Partisanship and Bipartisanship Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Author
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