The Hollow Hope

Gerald N Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg's critics--not to mention his supporte... Lees meer

Real Democracy

Frank M Bryan

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American demo... Lees meer

Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War

John Mueller

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• The Persian Gulf crisis may well have been the most extensively polled episode in U.S. history as President Bush, his opponents, and even Saddam Husse... Lees meer

Is Anyone Responsible?

Shanto Iyengar

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• A disturbingly cautionary tale, Is Anyone Responsible? anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished po... Lees meer

Mayors and Money

Ester R Fuchs

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Este... Lees meer

Common Knowledge

W Russell Neuman

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result... Lees meer

Race, Redistricting, and Representation

David T Canon

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Since the creation of minority-dominated congressional districts eight years ago, the Supreme Court has condemned the move as akin to "political apart... Lees meer

The Myth of Democratic Failure

Donald A Wittman

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• This book refutes one of the cornerstone beliefs of economics and political science: that economic markets are more efficient than the processes and i... Lees meer

For the Many or the Few

John G Matsusaka

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Direct democracy continues to grow in importance throughout the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the... Lees meer

Turf Wars

David C King

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turf--or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill--can make all the difference. Turf governs... Lees meer

Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement

Dennis Chong

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial s... Lees meer

Defining the National Interest

Peter Trubowitz

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so diffic... Lees meer

Taken by Storm

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• In the most comprehensive study of the media and foreign policy, twenty distinguished scholars and analysts explain the role played by the mass media ... Lees meer

Roots of Reform

Elizabeth Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues tha... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention

David N Gibbs

• Hardcover | Engels | American Politics and Political Economy
• Interventionism--the manipulation of the internal politics of one country by another--has long been a feature of international relations. The practice... Lees meer