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  • Harry Potter and the Millennials

    Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation

    by Anthony Gierzynski ...
    A national survey of college students reveals connections between political opinion and popular culture.Without a doubt the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard—reading the books, dressing up in costume to attend midnight book release parties, watching the movies, and even creating and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the American States

    by Anthony Gierzynski ...
    Series series Comparative Legislative Studies
    In a time of increasing campaign costs and decreasing state political party activity, legislative party campaign committees have grown to play a major role in the politics of elections in a large number of American states. Anthony Gierzynski's book focuses on these committees.In this first multi-state analysis, Gierzynski explores the nature and practices of the committees through interviews with ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Political Effects of Entertainment Media

    How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives

    by Anthony Gierzynski ...
    Entertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the “best way” to deal with a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Our stories portray individuals along the lines of gender, racial, and ethnic stereotypes; ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Money Rules

    Financing Elections In America

    by Anthony Gierzynski ...
    The role of money in the US electoral process has become more and more controversial in recent years. Following the Buckley ruling and other legislation in 1996, candidates and political parties are free to raise virtually unlimited soft money, making money perhaps the most significant factor in a campaigns success. In Money Rules , Anthony Gierzynski theorizes that, under our current system of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Clashing Over Commerce

    A History of US Trade Policy

    by Douglas A. Irwin ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: "Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths." — EconomistShould the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction

    by L. Sandy Maisel ...
    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

    $7.99 USD

  • The Limits of Party

    Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

    by James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate ... Read more

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  • Obama on the Home Front

    Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks

    by John D. Graham ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "The best comprehensive review of the Obama administration's policies available," by the author of Bush on the Home Front (Daniel P. Franklin, author of Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Term).Barack Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the same intense congressional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Softwood Lumber War

    "Politics, Economics, and the Long U.S.-Canadian Trade Dispute"

    by Daowei Professor Zhang ...
    As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada for nearly 20 years. Dubbed the 'Softwood Lumber War,' the conflict enveloped politicians and business leaders on both sides of the border and placed strains on the historically close economic and political relations between the two countries. This book is an ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Michigan Government, Politics, and Policy

    Edited by John S Klemanski, David A Dulio ...
    The State of Michigan has experienced both tremendous growth and great decline in its history. After many decades of growth up to the 1950s, a wide variety of challenges had to be confronted by citizens and all levels of government in Michigan. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen pockets of growth but also long-term economic decline in several areas in the state. As one example, steep ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • In Defense of Judicial Elections

    by Chris W. Bonneau, Melinda Gann Hall ...
    Series series Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation
    One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or should they be subject to the approval of the electorate and the processes that accompany popular control? While this debate is interesting and often quite heated, it usually occurs without reference to empirical ... Read more

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  • Peddling Protectionism

    Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

    by Douglas A. Irwin ...
    "A vivid, anecdotal, judicious telling of timeless story: what happens when cocksure politicians fall into the grip of a really bad economic idea."—Financial TimesAn authoritative history of the disastrous U.S. tariffs that worsened the Great Depression around the worldThe Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most ... Read more

    $19.49 USD