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  • Black Politics in a Time of Transition

    by David Covin ...
    Series series National Political Science Review Series
    Black Politics in a Time of Transition appears at an historic point in American politics. From the vantage point of the maturation of the study of black politics, this volume provides a framework for current and future discussion of this critical time. Incorporating the expanded stream of work on today's black politics, this latest volume of the National Political Science Review is also a new ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics

    Political Development and Black Women

    by Michael Mitchell, David Covin ...
    Series series National Political Science Review Series
    Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first concentrates on the institutional aspects of Black politics. The second book addresses various dimensions of social capital that constitute the fundamental building blocks of Black politics. Each ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
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  • American Dream and Public Schools

    by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick ...
    The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to ... Read more

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  • Public Opinion

    by Carroll J. Glynn ...
    Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book also serves as a ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters

    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior? This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of ... Read more

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  • Poverty Knowledge

    Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

    by Alice O'Connor ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty ... Read more

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  • Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America

    by Hans Noel ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America puts ideology front and center in the discussion of party coalition change. Treating ideology as neither a nuisance nor a given, the analysis describes the development of the modern liberal and conservative ideologies that form the basis of our modern political parties. Hans Noel shows that liberalism and conservatism emerged as important ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Increasingly United States

    How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized

    by Daniel J. Hopkins ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    "Hopkins is a sure-footed guide to the twilight of local politics, and he's aware of the risks that these developments may pose." ― The New YorkerIn a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because American ... Read more

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  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

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    by Andrew J. Perrin ...
    Series series Political Sociology
    In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years of the American republic, democracy is first and foremost a matter of culture: the shared ideas, practices, and technologies that help individuals combine into publics and achieve representation. ... Read more

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  • Obama and the Biracial Factor

    The Battle for a New American Majority

    Edited by Andrew J Jolivette ...
    Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial background and what it means. Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the ... Read more

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