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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bethany albertson”
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  • Anxious Politics

    Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World

    by Bethany Albertson, Shana Kushner Gadarian ...
    Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Press and Democratic Backsliding

    How Journalism Has Failed the Public and How It Can Revive Democracy

    by Bethany Albertson, Daryl A. Carter, Daniela Grassau, Katherine Haenschen, Jamie C. Higdon, Andrea Hudson, Sharon Jarvis, Patrick R. Johnson, Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye0, Kyser Lough1, Lindsey Meeks2, Andrew Mendelson3, Paul A. Obi4, Constanza Ortega-Gunckel5, Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard6, Mildred F. Perreault7, Valentina Proust8, Joshua M. Scacco9, Anita Varma0, Aaron S. Veenstra1, Joseph Yoo3 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”—praising candidates for being politically smart rather than being honest—in its coverage of a political landscape dominated by a looming authoritarian threat. Contributors document how the American and global political ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    Europe after the Euro Crisis

    by Sergio Fabbrini ...
    Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Integrity in British Politics

    How Citizens Judge their Politicians' Conduct and Why It Matters

    by Nicholas Allen, Sarah Birch ...
    Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first general account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against the ... Read more

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  • The Europeanization of Politics

    The Formation of a European Electorate and Party System in Historical Perspective

    by Daniele Caramani ...
    In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author shows the existence of common alignments and parallel waves of electoral change across the continent. Europeanization appears through an array of ... Read more

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  • American Gridlock

    The Sources, Character, and Impact of Political Polarization

    Edited by James A. Thurber, Antoine Yoshinaka ...
    American Gridlock brings together the country's preeminent experts on the causes, characteristics, and consequences of partisan polarization in US politics and government, with each chapter presenting original scholarship and novel data. This book is the first to combine research on all facets of polarization, among the public (both voters and activists), in our federal institutions (Congress, the ... Read more

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  • America's Forgotten Constitutions

    by Robert L. Tsai ...
    Robert Tsai's history invites readers into the circle of defiant groups who refused to accept the Constitution's definition of who "We the People" are and how their authority should be exercised. It is the story of America as told by dissenters: squatters, Native Americans, abolitionists, socialists, internationalists, and racial nationalists. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Changing Course in Latin America

    Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era

    by Kenneth M. Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of market reform align and stabilize party systems, whereas other patterns of reform leave party systems vulnerable to widespread social protest and electoral instability. In contrast to other works on the topic, this ... Read more

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  • Independent Politics

    How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

    by Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov ...
    The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists ... Read more

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  • Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?

    Party Activists, Party Capture, and the 'God Gap'

    by Ryan L. Claassen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    Do Evangelical activists control the Republican Party? Do secular activists control the Democratic Party? In Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?, Ryan Claassen carefully assesses the way campaign activists represent religious and non-religious groups in American political parties dating back to the 1960s. By providing a new theoretical framework for investigating the connections between macro ... Read more

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  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture

    by Jonathan Rynhold ...
    This book surveys discourse and opinion in the United States toward the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1991. Contrary to popular myth, it demonstrates that US support for Israel is not based on the pro-Israel lobby, but rather is deeply rooted in American political culture. That support has increased since 9/11. However, the bulk of this increase has been among Republicans, conservatives, ... Read more

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  • The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015

    Edited by Anthony Seldon, Mike Finn ...
    The British general election of May 2010 delivered the first coalition government since the Second World War. David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledged a 'new politics' with the government taking office in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Five years on, a team of leading experts drawn from academia, the media, Parliament, Whitehall and think tanks assesses this 'coalition effect' ... Read more

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