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  • Work in the Digital Age

    Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Shining a light on the very different experiences of work in the digital age, this book provides a unique contribution to the reform discussion on the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution. Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, contributors examine important policy challenges arising from the transformation of work as a result of the introduction of digital technology at ... Read more

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  • Equity in the Workplace

    Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis

    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    This edited collection assembles cutting-edge comparative policy research on contemporary policies relevant to gender and workplace issues. Contributors analyze contemporary gender-related employment policies ranging from parental leave and maternity programs, sexual harassment, and work/life balance to gender mainstreaming. Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective thoroughly illustrates the ... Read more

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  • Part-Time Prospects

    An International Comparison

    The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years. Part-Time Prospects presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. It brings together sociologists and economists in this wide-ranging and ... Read more

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  • Youth Labor in Transition

    Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe

    Series series International Policy Exchange Series
    Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Youth Labor in Transition examines young people's integration into employment, alongside the decisions and consequences of migrating to find work and later returning home. The authors identify key ... Read more

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  • The Independent Voter

    Independent voters—the 40–50 percent of Americans who reject identification with either of the two major parties or with any party—are increasing in number and impact. Independents are determining the outcome of major elections, upending the long-held categories of political science. Drawing on historical and contemporary data (including survey data, participant observation, interviews, and ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system. This Very Short Introduction gives readers a concise, accessible, and ... Read more

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  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

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  • They Don't Represent Us

    Reclaiming Our Democracy

    WITH A NEW FOREWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION"This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that's truly by and for the people."—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and UnriggedIn the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, ... ... Read more

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  • Dollars for Life

    The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

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    A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews“[Ziegler’s] argument [is] that, over the course of decades, t... ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Asymmetric Politics

    Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats

    Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do Democratic politicians propose an array of different policies to match the diversity of their supporters, only to become mired in stark demographic divisions over issue priorities? In short, why do the two parties act so ... Read more

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  • The Tea Party

    A Brief History

    A historian looks at the remarkable rise of the Tea Party movement and its effect on American politics.The Tea Party burst on the national political scene in 2009–2010, powered by right-wing grassroots passion and Astroturf big money. Its effect is undeniable, but the message, aims, and staying power of the loosely organized groups seem unclear. In this book, American political historian Ronald P. ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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