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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peverill squire”
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  • Reforming Legislatures

    American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020

    by Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    Winner of the 2025 Virginia Gray Book Award, APSA Section 22: State Politics and PolicyLegislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier settlements, and functioned as the focal point of every ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900

    by Peverill Squire ...
    The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Representative

    Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America

    by Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Why States Matter

    An Introduction to State Politics

    by Gary F. Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    When it comes to voting, taxes, environmental regulations, social services, education, criminal justice, political parties, property rights, gun control, marriage and a whole host of other modern American issues, the state in which a citizen resides makes a difference. That idea—that the political decisions made by those in state-level offices are of tremendous importance to the lives of people ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Iowa Caucuses And The Presidential Nominating Process

    by Peverill Squire ...
    This book aims to better explain the Iowa caucuses and presents updated versions of the papers presented at a Shambaugh conference, "First in the Nation: Iowa and the Nomination Process," held at the University of Iowa, February 7-8, 1988. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Evolution of American Legislatures

    Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009

    by Peverill Squire ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    The institutional development of American legislatures, beginning with the first colonial assembly of 1619, has been marked by continuity as well as change. Peverill Squire draws upon a wealth of primary sources to document this institutional history. Beginning with the ways in which colonial assemblies followed the precedents of British institutions, Squire traces the fundamental ways they ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • State Legislatures Today

    Politics under the Domes

    by Gary Moncrief, Peverill Squire ...
    A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context, showing how they have evolved over the years, and differentiating them from Congress. It covers ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    by Adam Smith ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things. ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

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  • The Bully Pulpit

    Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

    by Doris Kearns Goodwin ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air.Winner of the Carnegie Medal.Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln

    by Tasha Philpot ...
    Series series The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
    Whether their slogan is “compassionate conservatism” or “hawkish liberalism,” political parties have always sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making minor adjustments to their public image. How do voters respond to these, often short-term, campaign appeals? Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln is Tasha Philpot’s insightful study of how parties use racial images to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Woodrow Wilson

    The Light Withdrawn

    by Christopher Cox ...
    An “assiduously researched” (The Wall Street Journal), “powerful...dispassionate new biography” (The Christian Science Monitor) of Woodrow Wilson, focused on his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.More than a century after his death, Woodrow Wilson’s influence on American politics remains strong while his contradictions loom larger than ever. With ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The American Political Party System

    Continuity and Change Over Ten Presidential Elections

    by John S. Jackson ...
    From party polarization, elections, and internal party politics, to the evolution of the U.S. presidency, John S. Jackson's new book has something for everyone interested in American politics. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of the U.S. government to the formation of today's political powerhouses, Jackson provides a narrative sweep of American party history like none other.Unique to ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD