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  • Gubernatorial Stability in Iowa: A Stranglehold on Power

    by Christopher W. Larimer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book uses a multi-method approach to explain why recent Iowa governors have been able to stay in office significantly longer than their peers. Voters in Iowa value a personal connection with their governor and those governors who ignore that expectation are held accountable at the polls. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric

    How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate

    by Jeanine E. Kraybill, Donna R. Hoffman, Christopher W. Larimer, Alison Howard, Raul Madrid Jr., Mirya Holman, Abby Perkins, Carrie Skulley, Stuart Wood, Nicole Mirkazemi0, Randy Villegas1, Chris Haynes2, Jessica Sattler3, Ivy A.M. Cargile4 ...
    Series series Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
    The rhetoric and political communication of the 2016 Presidential Election was arguably unconventional, partisan, and polarizing—becoming a defining characteristic of the tone and feel of the campaign. In this volume we examine how rhetoric and various political communication strategies influenced and shaped the contours of the election and ultimately its outcome. Witnessing the most diverse ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Public Policy Theory Primer

    by Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer ...
    The field of public policy is so broad, diffuse, and balkanized that imposing order on it from an instructor’s perspective—let alone from a student’s perspective— can be a difficult and frustrating undertaking. The Public Policy Theory Primer, Fourth Edition, is designed to provide a firm grounding in public policy while also offering an introduction to the research agendas that are rising fastest ... Read more

    Was $66.99 USD Now $59.99 USD

  • Presidential Swing States

    by David F. Damore, Rafael Jacob, Sean D. Foreman, Elizabeth Maltby, Rebecca D. Gill, Dante J. Scala, Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, Neil Kraus, Aaron C. Weinschenk0, Donna R. Hoffman1, Christopher W. Larimer2, James P. Melcher3, Amy Fried4, Nathaniel Swigger5, David A. Dulio6, John S. Klemanski7, Kate Kenski8, Karen L. Owen9, Kyle Hull0, Scott McLean1, David Schultz2, Dr. Christopher Borick4 ...
    The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came down to a handful of swing states that ultimately decided the election. In their third edition of Presidential Swing States, Rafael Jacob and David ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Public Administration Theory Primer

    by H. George Frederickson, Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer, Michael J. Licari ...
    The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches—from public institutional theory to theories of governance—and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rediscovering Institutions

    by James G. March, Johan P. Olsen ...
    The authors propose a new theory of political behavior that re-invigorates the role of institutions—from laws and bureaucracy to rituals and symbols—as essential to understanding the modern political and economic systems that guide contemporary life. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Organizations and Organizing

    Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

    by Gerald F. Davis, W. Richard Scott ...
    This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • The Limits of Neoliberalism

    Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

    by William Davies ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to ... Read more

    $69.99 USD