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  • Holding Together

    The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone

    A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push backAn overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can ... Leer más

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  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    de John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Leer más

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  • The Democrat Party Hates America

    de Mark R. Levin ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star returns to the page to reveal the radically dangerous Democrat agenda that is upending American life.In American Marxism, Mark Levin explained how Marxist ideology has invaded our society and culture. In doing so, he exposed the institutions, scholars, and activists leading the ... Leer más

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  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Leer más

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  • Strength in Numbers

    How Polls Work and Why We Need Them

    An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy.Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of ... Leer más

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  • The First Civil Right

    How Liberals Built Prison America

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that this shift began with the "tough on crime" policies advocated by Republicans and southern ... Leer más

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  • How the Tea Party Captured the GOP

    Insurgent Factions in American Politics

    This incisive and timely study of American party politics reveals how a fringe group within the Republican party came to wield outsized power.The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influence in the ... Leer más

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  • Representing the Advantaged

    How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Insecure Majorities

    Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

    "[A] tour de force. Building upon her argument in Beyond Ideology, she adds an important wrinkle into the current divide between the parties in Congress." — Perspectives on PoliticsAs Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is ... Leer más

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  • Caught

    The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics

    A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in AmericaThe huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, ... Leer más

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  • American Politics and Society

    de David McKay ...
    Provides an up-to-date introduction and analysis of the US political scene written from a comparative perspective, newly revised and updated throughoutAmerican Politics and Society in an accessible introduction to the main institutions of the US federal government, discussing the most recent developments in broader economic, social, and comparative contexts. Now in its tenth edition, this popular ... Leer más

    $35.00 USD

  • Policing Immigrants

    Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief." Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and ... Leer más

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