Political parties and party platforms

Party identification may be the single most powerful predictor of voting behavior, yet scholars continue to disagree whether this is good or bad for democracy.

As the number of women candidates for office in the U.

Named the American Political Science Association's Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics for 2014When we think of minorities--linguistic, ethnic, religious, regional, or racial--in world politics, conflict is often the first thing that comes to mind.

Lewis L.

Lewis L.

By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now.

The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion.

The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion.

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J.

In legislatures, group dynamics affect how the legislature operates, who is valued enough to play a critical decision-making role, and what voices matter in determining policy outcomes.

Engines of Change, which is in the Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development series, provides the first full account of the role of national intra-party "e;factions"e; in American politics.

Gusatvo Flores-Macias' After Neoliberalism?

Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are standard fare among average citizens, political pundits, and even some academics.

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil.

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

How Women Represent Women argues that political parties fundamentally structure the ways in which women legislators represent women's interests.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger.

Crisis of Conservatism?

Here, Michael F.

Crisis of Conservatism?

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked.

Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others.

Here, Michael F.

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger.

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are standard fare among average citizens, political pundits, and even some academics.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now.

When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "e;Syrian Muslim Brotherhood"e; and its "e;al-Qaeda affiliates.

When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "e;Syrian Muslim Brotherhood"e; and its "e;al-Qaeda affiliates.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices.

The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory.

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices.

The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory.

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil.

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo.

During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families.

From the election of Jimmy Carter to the wide defection of Democrats in the South to the Republican ticket in the Reagan/Bush years, Southern Democrats have played a crucial role in recent American national politics.

These boldly argued essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs.

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "e;near-death"e; experiences have appeared in the past decade.

In the fifty years following the Revolution, America's population nearly quadrupled, its boundaries expanded, industrialization took root in the Northeast, new modes of transportation flourished, state banks proliferated and offered easy credit to eager entrepreneurs, and Americans found themselves in the midst of an accelerating age of individualism, equality, and self-reliance.

In the mid-1970s, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) almost succeeded in entering the national government; however, by the end of the decade its popularity had dramatically declined.

Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century.

From the end of the New Deal until quite recently, the U.