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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

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of the European Union

    by Herman Lelieveldt, Sebastiaan Princen ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Comparative Politics
    This introduction to the politics of the European Union uses the lens of comparative politics to explore the history, theories, institutions, key participants, policies and policy making of the EU. The comparative approach enables students to use their knowledge of domestic politics and broader debates in political science to better understand the EU. Numerous real-world examples guide students ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • 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

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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

    $39.99 CAD

  • 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

    $40.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • 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

    $39.99 CAD

  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • Taking Rites Seriously

    Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith

    by Francis J. Beckwith ...
    Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general topics - reason and motive, dignity and personhood, nature and sex - philosopher and legal theorist Francis J ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Politicising Europe

    Integration and Mass Politics

    Edited by Swen Hutter, Edgar Grande, Hanspeter Kriesi ...
    Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion

    Causes and Consequences

    by Jeffrey E. Cohen ...
    Although presidents may have a difficult time actually leading the public and Congress, voters still desire strong leadership from their commander in chief. In Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion, Jeffrey E. Cohen argues that the perception of presidential leadership in American politics is affected not so much by what presidents accomplish but by whether voters think their president is a ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

    by Bruce P. Frohnen, George W. Carey ...
    Americans are increasingly ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other forms of quasi-law that lack the predictability and consistency essential for the legal system to function properly. As a result, the U.S. Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern, and the government no longer acts according to the rule ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD