Search results for ""Author J. Eric Oliver""
The University of Chicago Press The Paradoxes of Integration
Book SynopsisThe United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. This title helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighborhood life.Trade Review"J. Eric Oliver makes an important new contribution to the scholarship of racial politics in this revealing account which explores social capital and racial difference in order to illustrate the contradictions between integration and intergroup tensions in contemporary American society." - Susan Welch, Pennylvania State University.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Paradoxes of Integration
Book SynopsisThe United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. This title helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighborhood life.Trade Review"J. Eric Oliver makes an important new contribution to the scholarship of racial politics in this revealing account which explores social capital and racial difference in order to illustrate the contradictions between integration and intergroup tensions in contemporary American society." - Susan Welch, Pennylvania State University.
£80.00
Princeton University Press Democracy in Suburbia
Book SynopsisSuburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond stereotypes, this title answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs.Trade Review"Much of what social scientists and other scholars have written about suburban life and politics has not been firmly grounded in empirical research... This deficiency has been partially redressed by political scientist Oliver."--Choice "Eric Oliver's book is a welcome departure from unsubstantiated claims, providing a sophisticated empirical analysis of the impact of social contexts and suburbanization on civic engagement... Democracy in Suburbia is an important contribution."--Daniel Rubenson, Political Studies "Oliver demonstrates that strong communities and large accumulations of social capital can actually undermine democracy. Class and racial divisions must be dealt with by our society... [I]t is at the local level that the most creative solutions are forged and that citizens acquire crucial civic skills and democratic values."--Todd Swanstrom, Review of Politics "A remarkable book, literally the first one ever published to present definitive evidence on the crucial issue of the impact of the suburbs on American democracy... It virtually forces the reader to step outside old debates and assumptions and examine anew the consequences of America's preference for fragmented governmental arrangements."--Dennis R. Judd, American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures ix List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Chapter One: The Rise of a Surburban Demos 1 Chapter Two: All Cries Great and Small 33 Chapter Three: Cities of Riches and Squalor 68 Chapter Four: The Civic Paradox of Racial Segreation 99 Chapter Five: A Bedroom Polis 134 Chapter Six: Boomtowns and the Civic Costs of Air-Conditioning 154 Chapter Seven: Reform Governments and Their Aftermath 175 Chapter Eight: Remaking the Democratic Metropolis 187 Appendix A: The Citizen Participation / Cenus Dataset 215 Appendix B: Logistic and OLS Regression Equations for the Figures 220 Appendix C: Testing the Relationship between Civic Participation and "Self-Inertest Rightly Understood" 236 References 241 Index 255
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide
Book SynopsisOliver and Wood explain American politics by positing an intuitionist/rationalist divide, one that affects how people respond to events, proposals, and candidatesand how the split is reflected in the split between parties today.Trade Review"This may well be the single most important book on public opinion in the last quarter century. The authors challenge our fundamental understanding of how individuals form opinions and engage in politics. It will surely stimulate debates for a generation, while at the same time dramatically enhancing what we know about citizens." --James N. Druckman, Northwestern University
£24.70
Princeton University Press Local Elections and the Politics of SmallScale
Book SynopsisOffers comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities. Arguing that explanations of voting behavior are ill suited for local contests, the author puts forward a theory that the differences between local, state, and national democracies.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Best Book Award, Urban Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association "This study takes a modest step toward filling a vast hole in the systematic investigation of local elections in the U.S."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Size, Scope, and Bias: What Differentiates Local Electoral Politics? 12 Chapter 2 Who Votes in Local Elections? 53 Chapter 3 Who Runs for Local Office? 87 Chapter 4 Systematic versus Idiosyncratic Factors in Local Elections 116 Chapter 5 What Influences Local Voters' Electoral Choices? 149 Chapter 6 Rethinking Local Democracy 183 References 209 Index 215
£31.50
The University of Chicago Press Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason
Book SynopsisAmerica is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who won the support of millions of conservative Christians despite having no moral or political convictions. What is going on? The answer, according to J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, can be found in the most important force shaping American politics today: human intuition. Much of what seems to be irrational in American politics arises from the growing divide in how its citizens make sense of the world. On one side are rationalists. They use science and reason to understand reality. On the other side are intuitionists. They rely on gut feelings and instincts as their guide to
£76.00
