The Great Divide

Geoffrey Layman

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• How did the Christian Right come to predominate in the Republican Party? Why, on the other hand, do secular and religiously liberal beliefs largely pr... Lees meer

How the News Media Fail American Voters

Kenneth Dautrich, Thomas Hartley

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• It is often noted that the public is frustrated with the news media. But what do American voters really think about how the media present political in... Lees meer

African American Legislators in the American States

Kerry Haynie

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Has black inclusion in the political process changed political institutions and led to more black influence in the governmental process? How do Africa... Lees meer

What Motivates Bureaucrats?

Marissa Martino Golden

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• "Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" --Ronald Reagan Ho... Lees meer

Eco-Wars

Ronald Libby

• Hardcover | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Can grassroots interest groups ever win the wars they wage in the political arena against big business in America? Praised by some as a crucial compon... Lees meer

Rushed to Judgment

David Barker

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh--the medium's most influential ... Lees meer

Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process

• Hardcover | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• From "Don't ask, don't tell" to the Defense of Marriage Act, from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the continued battle against AIDS, gays and... Lees meer

From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls

John Geer

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• The first in-depth analysis of the link between politicians' behavior and opinion polls. Exploring political action within a broad historical context,... Lees meer

The President and His Inner Circle

Thomas Preston

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960,... Lees meer

The Dual Agenda

Dona Cooper Hamilton, Charles Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• This book chronicles the complex connections between race and class that have marked American social reform since the New Deal, revealing an aspect of... Lees meer

The New American Interventionism

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Intervention is as American as apple pie, writes Robert Jervis in the introduction to this book. Illustrating this proposition, twelve authorities dra... Lees meer

The Financiers of Congressional Elections

Peter Francia, John Green, Paul Herrnson, Lynda Powell, Clyde Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But... Lees meer

Rushed to Judgment

David Barker

• Hardcover | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh--the medium's most influential ... Lees meer

Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race

Judith Russell

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• In this hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty, Judith Russell charges that since FDR's New Deal, the U.S. government has introduced many public ... Lees meer

The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality

Russell Riley

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• From the abolition of slavery to the civil rights movement one hundred years later, one of the primary characteristics of America's development as a n... Lees meer

Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• From "Don't ask, don't tell" to the Defense of Marriage Act, from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the continued battle against AIDS, gays and... Lees meer

The Political Consequences of Being a Woman

Kim Fridkin Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of state... Lees meer

Reelection

Hanes Walton

• Paperback | Engels | Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2
• Since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, only three Democrats have captured the White House--all of them natives of southern states. The as... Lees meer