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  • The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State

    Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan

    by Adam D. Sheingate ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies. His considered conclusion is that American institutions have not given ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Building a Business of Politics

    The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy

    by Adam Sheingate ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants. In Building a Business of Politics, Adam Sheingate traces the history of political consultants from its origins in the publicity experts and pollsters of the 1920s and 1930s to the strategists and media specialists of the 1970s who transformed political campaigns into a highly profitable business. Today, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

    Edited by Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, Adam Sheingate ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events influence the origin and transformation of institutions that govern political and economic relations, historical institutionalism has grown ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Cultural Evolution

    by Ronald F. Inglehart ...
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  • Time for Socialism

    Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

    by Thomas Piketty ...
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  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Read more

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  • The Conscience of a Liberal

    by Paul Krugman ...
    "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of BooksIn this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the ... Read more

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  • Social Reproduction Theory

    Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

    Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship ... Read more

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    by Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
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  • Seeking Spatial Justice

    by Edward W. Soja ...
    Series Book 16 - Globalization and Community
    In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, ... Read more

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  • Analyzing Public Policy

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:institutionsgroups and networkssociety and the economyindividual interestsideas.The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and ... Read more

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