Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 180 p. Donald Trump’s presidency produced no end of controversy. His tumultuous presidency also created new avenues of public policy and national politics. Prominent scholars of American institutions, politics and public policy assess the multiple consequences of Trump’s singular presidency in this volume. How did Trump’s...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 186 p. Time and again, in recent years, the charge has been made that sitting presidents have behaved “imperially,” employing authorities that break the bounds of law and the Constitution. It is now an epithet used to describe the presidencies of both parties. The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution examine this critical issue...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 336 p. Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. It is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. — 225 p. American politics is criticized and belittled by media critics and the public, yet the system is held out as a model for the world. The paradox of this simultaneous cynicism and adulation is rooted in the conflict between the human motives that drive politics. Crisply and written with numerous historical examples, 'How American...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 280 p. Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency, and legacy of Modern American presidents. From the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated media coverage and public consciousness, winning elections, gaining support for their leadership in office, and shaping their reputation in history. Is the...
Princeton Review, 2020. — 352 p. Grade level: 10 - 12. Everything you need to help score a perfect 5 — now with 50% more practice than in previous editions! Ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this comprehensive study guide, including 3 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and access to...
Palgrave Pivot, 2023. — 152 p. This book assembles eight chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science, sociology, and psychology to produce a sustained look at the wide range of identity politics in the 2020 US National Election and the lessons for 2024. These chapters emerged from papers presented at the American Elections Symposium held at the New...
University of Georgia Press, 2022. — 180 p. In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 255 p. How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches. The specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Balance presents a new theory of...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 888 p. One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 305 p. The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce, Dewey, Hook, and Rorty, and combines it with...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 375 p. An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers. In this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative...
University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 336 p. When the United States goes to war, the nation’s attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because of Congress’s repeated failure to exercise its legislative powers to rein in...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 186 p. Agenda Crossover updates our understanding of state delegations, exploring how they influence representation and responsiveness in Congress today. The theory of agenda crossover posits that members of the House and Senate have much to gain from monitoring the legislative agendas of other members of the delegation, especially those in...
11th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. — 704 p. — ISBN10: 007802479X; ISBN13: 978-0078024795. We the People, Eleventh Edition, sets a new standard for showing how government affects students' lives and why it matters who participates. The Who Are Americans? theme has been expanded to highlight how Americans from different backgrounds experience politics and the new Who...
Celadon Books, 2020. — 368 p. From Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User's Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Are you sure you know the difference between the...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 505 p. Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential aspects of the office, the president's...
New York: Princeton Review, 2020. — 661 p. — ISBN: 0525569669. Ace the 2021 AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 full-length practice exams (more than any other major competitor), plus thorough content reviews, targeted test strategies, and access to online extras. Techniques That Work....
New York: Ballantine Book, 1988. — eISBN: 978-0-307-82957-3. Power is the name of the game. But until now, no one outside "the beltway" knew just who was wielding how much and for what ends. Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex-Washington bureau chief of THE New York TIMES, Hedrick Smith, tells the whole story. From PACs to influence-peddling from the Pentagon to the WASHINGTON POST, THE...
13th edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 675 p. — ISBN: 9781259912405. We the People by Thomas Patterson is a concise approach to the American Government, emphasizing critical thinking through relevant examples that appeal to today's students. This extremely readable program provides opportunities to engage with the political process through tools that help students learn...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 388 p. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough overview of civil rights in U.S. history, detailing all the relevant amendments to the Constitution and reviewing key Supreme Court decisions and landmark cases on the topic. Aimed at general readers as well as high school, college, and university students, it focuses on the role...
15th Ed. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 463 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393674-93-2, ISBN: 978-0-393674-94-0. A fresh, accessible perspective on the fundamentals. Why does the American political system work the way it does? This major revision brings a renewed focus to the institutions, processes, and data that illuminate big questions about governance and representation in the United...
Visible Ink Press, 2017. — 465 p. — ASIN B0718X8J3V, ISBN 1578596394. The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking world veiled in...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 346 p. — ISBN10: 0190650753, ISBN13: 978-0190650759. What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped presidential decision-making in critical...
New York: Ballantine Book, 1988. – eISBN: 978-0-307-82957-3 Power is the name of the game. But until now, no one outside "the beltway" knew just who was wielding how much-and for what ends. Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex-Washington bureau chief of THE New York TIMES, Hedrick Smith, tells the whole story. From PACs to influence-peddling from the Pentagon to the WASHINGTON POST, THE...
ISBN10: 0393935256, 0393149579 2011. - 1120 p., 8th Texas Edition Politics is relevant. The best book for engaging students in American politics is also the most effective for helping students study and learn. We the People emphasizes the ways that government and politics matter and the ways that people can get involved in politics and influence government. In the Eighth...
Textbook, Publisher: Wadsworth, Copyright year: 2012 p.: 689 American Government and Politics Today is known nationwide for its balanced, unbiased, and up-to-date coverage of constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and their processes. American Government and Politics Today encourages students to experience the excitement that comes with being...
Textbook, Teacher's edition. PrenticeHall, Pearson, 2009, pp. 889. Magruder s American Government, first published in 1917 and revised annually, is an enduring symbol of the author's faith in American ideals and American institutions. The life of Frank Abbott Magruder (1882 1949) was an outstanding example o Americanism at its very best. His career as a teacher, author, and...
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