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ordered by best selling| The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform (Chicago Studies in American Politics) | |||
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Author(s) : Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, John Zaller | ||
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| Brief Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—pe...Read More |
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| The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq (Stanford Security Studies) | |||
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Author(s) : John Diamond | ||
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| Brief The 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq sprang in no small part from massive intelligence failures, that much is well understood. How the CIA got to a point where it could fail so catastrophically is not.According to John Diamond, this slippage results from the tendency to overlook the links between se...Read More |
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| Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War (American Politics and Political Economy Series) | |||
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| Brief In the most comprehensive study of the media and foreign policy, twenty distinguished scholars and analysts explain the role played by the mass media and public opinion in the development of United States foreign policy in the Gulf War.Tracing the flow of news, public opinion, and policy decisions f...Read More |
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| The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (Chicago Studies in American Politics) | |||
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Author(s) : Suzanne Mettler | ||
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| Brief “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administr...Read More |
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| Debating War and Peace | |||
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Author(s) : Jonathan Mermin | ||
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| Brief The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over ...Read More |
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| Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil | |||
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Author(s) : Stanley Bailey | ||
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| Brief The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as neither bla...Read More |
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| Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (American Politics and Political Economy Series) | |||
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Author(s) : Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler, Dean E. Alger, Timothy E. Cook | ||
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| Brief The most comprehensive portrait of a presidential campaign in more than a decade, Crosstalk focuses on the 1992 U.S. presidential race and looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.Exa...Read More |
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| The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right | |||
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Author(s) : Jon A. Shields | ||
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| Brief The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values. But in The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, Jon Shields argues that religious conservatives have in fact dramatically increased and improved democratic participation and that they are far more civil and reas...Read More |
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| Princeton Readings in American Politics | |||
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| Brief Princeton Readings in American Politics offers an exciting and challenging new way to learn about American politics. It brings together political science that has stood the test of time and recent cutting-edge analyses to acquaint undergraduate and graduate students with the substantive, conc...Read More |
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| Representing Black Culture: Race and Cultural Politics in the United States | |||
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Author(s) : Richard M. Merelman | ||
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| Brief Representing Black Culture provides an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the role that black culture plays in American race realtions. By analyzing films, literature, popular music, education, television, and governmental cultural policy, Richard M. Merelman looks carefuly at how African-Amer...Read More |
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