Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1316516369
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
Author : American Political Science Association. Meeting
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Contains addresses, papers, and reports of business conducted at meetings of the Association.
Author : Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226039536
When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.” That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States. The authors retain all the substance of their contention that short-term, single-issue analyses cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media. Jones and Baumgartner provide a different interpretation by taking the long view of several issues—including nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—to demonstrate that bursts of rapid, unpredictable policy change punctuate the patterns of stability more frequently associated with government. Featuring a new introduction and two additional chapters, this updated edition ensures that their findings will remain a touchstone of policy studies for many years to come.
Author : James A. Stimson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107108179
Tracking trends in American public opinion, this study examines moods of public policy over time. It argues that public opinion is decisive in American politics and identifies the citizens who produce influential change as a relatively small subset of the American electorate.
Author : Nicole Hemmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0812248392
Messengers of the Right tells the story of the media activists who built the American conservative movement and transformed it into one of the most significant and successful movements of the twentieth century—and in the process remade the Republican Party and the American media landscape.
Author : Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674030213
Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans have always been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority, but how these ideals have been frustrated through institutions and hierarchies needed to govern a democracy.
Author : Cara J. Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139487132
This book shows how ordinary Americans imagine their communities and the extent to which their communities' boundaries determine who they believe should benefit from the government's resources via redistributive policies. By contributing extensive empirical analyses to a largely theoretical discussion, it highlights the subjective nature of communities while confronting the elusive task of pinning down 'pictures in people's heads'. A deeper understanding of people's definitions of their communities and how they affect feelings of duties and obligations provides a new lens through which to look at diverse societies and the potential for both civic solidarity and humanitarian aid. This book analyzes three different types of communities and more than eight national surveys. Wong finds that the decision to help only those within certain borders and ignore the needs of those outside rests, to a certain extent, on whether and how people translate their sense of community into obligations.
Author : Dan Cassino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317479998
In recent years, scholars have argued that the ability of people to choose which channel they want to watch means that television news is just preaching to the choir, and doesn’t change any minds. However, this book shows that the media still has an enormous direct impact on American society and politics. While past research has emphasized the indirect effects of media content on attitudes – through priming or framing, for instance – Dan Cassino argues that past data on both the public opinion and the media side wasn’t detailed enough to uncover it. Using a combination of original national surveys, large scale content analysis of news coverage along with data sets as disparate as FBI gun background checks and campaign contribution records, Cassino discusses why it’s important to treat different media sources separately, estimating levels of ideological bias for television media sources as well as the differences in the topics that the various media sources cover. Taking this into account proves that exposure to some media sources can serve to actually make Americans less knowledgeable about current affairs, and more likely to buy into conspiracy theories. Even in an era of declining viewership, the media – especially Fox News – are shaping our society and our politics. This book documents how this is happening, and shows the consequences for Americans. The quality of journalism is more than an academic question: when coverage focuses on questionable topics, or political bias, there are consequences.
Author : Daniel J. Hopkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022653040X
In 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 political behavior has become substantially more nationalized. American voters are far more engaged with and knowledgeable about what’s happening in Washington, DC, than in similar messages whether they are in the South, the Northeast, or the Midwest. Gone are the days when all politics was local. With The Increasingly United States, Daniel J. Hopkins explores this trend and its implications for the American political system. The change is significant in part because it works against a key rationale of America’s federalist system, which was built on the assumption that citizens would be more strongly attached to their states and localities. It also has profound implications for how voters are represented. If voters are well informed about state politics, for example, the governor has an incentive to deliver what voters—or at least a pivotal segment of them—want. But if voters are likely to back the same party in gubernatorial as in presidential elections irrespective of the governor’s actions in office, governors may instead come to see their ambitions as tethered more closely to their status in the national party.
Author : David Coates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019976431X
Provides students and scholars with a valuable reference source in the field of American Politics. The Companion will equip readers with a deep understanding of the complex interaction between governmental institutions and processes and the wider American economy and society that they govern.
