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  • Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control

    by Eric S. Heberlig, Prof. Bruce A. Larson ...
    With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority control, both Republicans and Democrats have made large donations to the party and its candidates mandatory for members seeking advancement within party and congressional committee hierarchies. Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson analyze this development and discuss its implications for American government ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • This Fight Is Our Fight

    The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

    by Elizabeth Warren ...
    This Fight Is Our Fight: Elizabeth Warren's Passionate Call to Save America's Middle ClassIn This Fight Is Our Fight, #1 New York Times bestselling author and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren offers a candid, inspiring look at why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the battle to save it. Drawing on her own experiences growing up in Oklahoma at the ragged edge of the middle class, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Parties Versus the People

    How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

    by Mickey Edwards ...
    "An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers' worst nightmare" ( The Daily Beast).America's political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes.As a former congressman, Mickey ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Lies, Incorporated

    The World of Post-Truth Politics

    by Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters for America ...
    A stunning investigation of the history of organized misinformation in politics.In today’s post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America present a revelatory history of this industry—which they've dubbed ... Read more

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  • Do the Poor Count?

    Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

    by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ...
    Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Party Wars

    Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making

    by Barbara Sinclair ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Party Wars is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf now separating the two major parties developed and how today’s fierce partisan competition affects the political process and national policy.Barbara Sinclair traces the current ideological divide to changes in the Republican party in the 1970s and 1980s, including the rise of neoconservativism and the Religious Right. Because of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • How Congress Evolves

    Social Bases of Institutional Change

    by Nelson W. Polsby ...
    From the end of the New Deal until quite recently, the U.S. House of Representatives was dominated by a conservative coalition that thwarted the Democratic majority and prevented the enactment of measures proposed by a succession of liberal Presidents. Today Presidents aren't necessarily liberal and the House of Representatives is not necessarily the graveyard of presidential proposals. What ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Political Negotiation

    A Handbook

    Edited by Jane Mansbridge, Cathie Jo Martin ...
    Polarization. Partisanship. Rancor. Character assassinations. Government shutdowns. Why can't our elected officials just get along and do their jobs?The United States was once seen as a land of broad consensus and pragmatic politics. Sharp ideological differences were largely absent. But today politics in America is dominated by intense party polarization and limited agreement among legislative ... Read more

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  • Government Accountability and Legislative Oversight

    by Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst show what tools are available to parliaments worldwide, which tools are more or less common, how ... Read more

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  • Woman of the House

    The Rise of Nancy Pelosi

    by Vincent Bzdek ...
    While the Democratic nominee for President will likely emerge from the 2008 primaries bloody and bruised, the always-smiling, confoundingly popular Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will be front and center as the party heads to its National Convention in August. Not only has she somehow won the confidence of the boys' club of the House and returned her party to majority status after twelve ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Regime Change You Can Believe In

    The Minimalist Joy of Opting Out

    by Jack Perry ...
    Learn how to live on as little as possible and accept it as a way of life--then celebrate it. The inevitable economic collapse could be a year away or it could be ten years away, but if you're already living frugally, what difference does it make? Opt out as a way of life and enjoy your new-found freedom. The less hold money has on you, the less you deal with it beyond having enough for essentials ... Read more

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