Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1987-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299098346
Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1987-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299098346
Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 21,28 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 : Richard M. Valelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199697914
Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
Author : Joseph E. Lowndes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136086420
Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment’s dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention.
Author : Karen Orren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521547642
Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.
Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521537865
During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely interpreted as reflections of the preferences of individual voters and thus seem to unambiguously document the existence of a robust democratic ethos. By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats, in turn, help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making.
Author : Alan Ware
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113521378X
The contributions here consider a number of themes and issues which account for the successful democratization of the United States and Canada and offer an analysis of the reasons for the absence of democratization in Mexico.
Author : Nicolas Barreyre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813937752
Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation. In Gold and Freedom, Nicolas Barreyre recovers the story of how economic issues became central to American politics after the war. The idea that a financial debate was as important for Reconstruction as emancipation may seem remarkable, but the war created economic issues that all Americans, not just southerners, had to grapple with, including a huge debt, an inconvertible paper currency, high taxation, and tariffs. Alongside the key issues of race and citizenship, the struggle with the new economic model and the type of society it created pervaded the entire country. Both were legacies of war. Both were fought over by the same citizens in a newly reunited nation. It was thus impossible for such closely related debates to proceed independently. A truly groundbreaking work, Gold and Freedom shows how much the fate of Reconstruction—and the political world it ultimately created—owed to northern sectional divisions, revealing important links between race and economy, as well as region and nation, not previously recognized.
Author : Catherine Boone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009441639
Extensive data, maps, and case histories show how competition between rich and poor regions drives African politics, not ethnic diversity.
Author : Richardson Dilworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135853177
There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban centers more than a century before the American Revolution. Yet despite their estimable size and prevalence in the United States, city government and politics has been a woefully neglected topic within the recent study of American political development. The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building. Each chapter shows explicitly how the American city demonstrates durable shifts in governing authority throughout the nation’s history. By filling an important gap in scholarship the book will thus become an indispensable part of the American political development canon, a crucial component of graduate and undergraduate courses in APD, urban politics, urban sociology, and urban history, and a key guide for future scholarship.