Political structure and processes

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

The future of the U.

Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote.

Was George W.

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization.

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on.

The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns.

A leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular valuesDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality-these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

When does democracy work well, and why?

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "e;substantive due process"e; embodied by the Constitution.

Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies.

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi?

The presidency of George W.

Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena.

At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated.

We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive.

The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts.

How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life?

Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters.

Democracy is overrated.

Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities?

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote.

Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory.

Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government.

Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J.

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state.

It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American ';Jim Crow,' and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe American Dream isn't a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.

Before the very eyes of the readers lie the results of a 17-month investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 United States presidential elections, allegations of conspiracy or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, and allegations of obstruction of justice, conducted by the Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.

How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life?

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state.

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives.

A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government.

The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states.

Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.

*THE TOP-TEN BESTSELLER* From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofSorcery of ThornsandAn Enchantment of Ravenscomes a thrilling new YA fantasy about a teen girl with mythic abilities.

Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting.

Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters.

How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resourcesThe Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value.

Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before.

Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote.