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  • Running for Judge

    The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections

    Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a timely, insightful analysis of judicial elections. The book ties together the current state of the ... Read more

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  • Rethinking American Electoral Democracy

    Series series Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation
    While frustration with various aspects of American democracy abound in the United States, there is little agreement over—or even understanding of—what kinds of changes would make the system more effective and increase political participation. Matthew J. Streb sheds much-needed light on all the major concerns of the electoral process in the thoroughly revised third edition of this timely book on ... Read more

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  • Law and Election Politics

    The Rules of the Game

    Edited by Matthew J. Streb ...
    Though the courts have been extremely active in interpreting the rules of the electoral game, this role is misunderstood and understudied—as, in many cases, are the rules themselves. Law and Election Politics illustrates how election laws and electoral politics are intertwined, analyzing the rules of the game and some of the most important—and most controversial—decisions the courts have made on a ... Read more

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  • The Battle for the Court

    Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy

    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary concerns is interest group involvement in elections to state supreme courts, which they see as having ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

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    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Read more

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  • The Parties Versus the People

    How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

    "An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers' worst nightmare" ( The Daily Beast).America's political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes.As a former congressman, Mickey ... Read more

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  • The Gamble

    Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election - Updated Edition

    A unique "moneyball" look at the 2012 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney"Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest—and what was just hype? In this groundbreaking book, John Sides and Lynn Vavreck tell the dramatic story of the election—with a big difference. Using an unusual ... Read more

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  • American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a ... Read more

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  • Defending the Filibuster

    The Soul of the Senate

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This award-winning study of today's filibuster debate provides a historical overview of Senate rules and an updated analysis of recent controversies.In an age of increasingly divided partisan politics, many argue that the Senate filibuster is undemocratic or even unconstitutional. Recent legislative disputes have brought criticism of Senate rules into sharp relief, and demands for abolition or ... Read more

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  • California Crackup

    How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It

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  • The Politics of Voter Suppression

    Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote

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    The Case for Universal Voting

    A timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalistAmericans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver’s licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask—or require—every American to vote?In 100% Democracy, E.J. Dionne and Miles ... Read more

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