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  • Negative Voting in Comparative Perspective

    by Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira da Silva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Why do some people conceive their vote choices as mostly against, rather than for a given party/candidate? Who are these negative voters? What macro-level conditions favor the development of negative voting? This volume provides answers to these questions through the first comparative assessment of negative voting in contemporary democracies. It presents a composite theoretical framework for the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial?

    Race and Politics in the Obama Era

    by Michael Tesler ...
    When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama's presidency—in spite of his administration's considerable efforts to neutralize ... Read more

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  • Follow the Leader?

    How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance

    by Gabriel S. Lenz ...
    In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters consider candidates' policy positions when deciding for whom to vote? And how do politicians' ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns

    by Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Melissa R. Michelson ...
    Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson present a new ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Multigrade Teaching In Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From Uganda, Senegal, And The Gambia

    by Mulkeen Aidan; Higgins Cathal ...
    In Africa, with the expansion of coverage of primary education in recent decades, many of the remaining out-of-school children are in hard to reach areas, with low population density and poor transport. Providing access to education is challenging in such contexts, as the population in any village is often too small to support a conventional primary school. One of the answers is the use of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Representing the Advantaged

    How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

    by Daniel M. Butler ...
    Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we would achieve political equality. Daniel M. Butler shows that this common view is incorrect. He uses ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dark Politics

    The Personality of Politicians and the Future of Democracy

    by Alessandro Nai, Jürgen Maier ...
    Recent years have seen the rise of political figures with particularly abrasive, controversial, and aggressive personalities, who seem to take pleasure in introducing an uncivil tone into the political debate. From Trump in the USA to Bolsonaro in Brazil, the media increasingly spotlights political figures who adopt a transgressive political style that incorporates spectacular acts, exaggeration, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Contested Policy

    The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001

    by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. ...
    Series series Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
    Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln

    by Tasha Philpot ...
    Series series The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
    Whether their slogan is “compassionate conservatism” or “hawkish liberalism,” political parties have always sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making minor adjustments to their public image. How do voters respond to these, often short-term, campaign appeals? Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln is Tasha Philpot’s insightful study of how parties use racial images to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • White Backlash

    Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    by Marisa A. Abrajano, Zoltan Hajnal ...
    White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Beyond Social Democracy

    The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt ...
    Beyond Social Democracy examines the electoral decline of social democratic parties and how distinctive strategic moves might enable them to salvage different segments of their former electoral coalitions. Social democratic decline, however, does not imply the demise of basic tenets of the parties' programmatic appeals. Under the impact of novel twenty-first-century political-economic challenges, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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