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  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Parties on the Ground

    A Study of Nominations for the House of Representatives

    by Kathleen Bawn, Knox Brown, Angela X. Ocampo, Shawn Patterson Jr. Jr., John L. Ray, John Zaller ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A close-up examination of the roots of congressional politics in nominations for the House of Representatives.With most House seats all but guaranteed for one party in general elections, primary elections for party nominees often decide who goes to Congress. Yet primaries are notoriously difficult to study, due in part to both the variety of rules that govern them and the differences in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Decisionmaking in a Glass House

    Mass Media, Public Opinion, and American and European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

    by Bruce Chadwick, Dennis Chiu, Richard C. Eichenberg, Robert M. Entman, Philip Everts, Ronald H. Hinckley, Ole R. Holsti, Natasha Hritzuk, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Steven Kull0, Natalie La Balme1, Benjamin I. Page2, Clay Ramsay3, Robert Y. Shapiro4, Martin Shaw6, Eric Shiraev7, Richard Sinnott8, Richard Sobel9, Eugene R. Wittkopf0, John Zaller1, Vlad Zubok2 ...
    No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Democracy

    Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new ... Read more

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  • The End of the West?

    Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order

    Edited by Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Risse ...
    The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Dictators and Democrats

    Masses, Elites, and Regime Change

    by Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman ...
    A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? ... Read more

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  • Looking for Balance

    China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia

    by Steve Chan ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Debate surrounding "China's rise," and the prospects of its possible challenge to America's preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should "contain" or "engage" China; and whether the rise of Chinese power has inclined other East Asian states to "balance" against Beijing by alignment with the United States or ramping up their military expenditures.By drawing on ... Read more

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  • Quality Peace

    Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order

    by Peter Wallensteen ...
    Series series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
    In Quality Peace, leading peace researcher Peter Wallensteen offers a broad analysis of peacebuilding, isolating what does and not work when settling conflicts. The book uses statistical analysis to compare two war outcomes-negotiated settlement and victory- in the post-Cold War era. Wallensteen finds that if peace is to last, three conditions must be met: a losing party must retain its dignity; ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Confronting Evil

    Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide

    by James Waller ...
    While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made. Despite the post-Holocaust consensus that "Never Again" would the world allow civilians to be victims of genocide, the reality is closer to "Again and Again." As many as 170 million civilians across the world were victims ... Read more

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  • National Security Cultures

    Patterns of Global Governance

    Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, James Sperling ...
    This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security.Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred forms of security governance the work provides a systematic account of perceived security threats and ... Read more

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  • The Russian People and Foreign Policy

    Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000

    by William Zimmerman ...
    Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War ... Read more

    $41.99 USD