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How Power Changes Hands: Transition and Succession in Government

mrblue — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:03:25 +0000

How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical evidence from comparative

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The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

mrblue — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:00:38 +0000

Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates’ positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only–or even the main–factors that

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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation

mrblue — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:43:22 +0000

The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more “dispassionate” notions

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Political Polling in the Digital Age: The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion

mrblue — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:05:48 +0000

The 2008 presidential election provided a ”perfect storm” for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect–in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate–skewed predictions,

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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines

mrblue — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:53:08 +0000

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is

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Cengage Advantage Books: Analyzing Politics, 5th Edition

mrblue — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:56:29 +0000

Brief, accessible, and sophisticated, ANALYZING POLITICS, Fifth Edition, presents a clear outline of the discipline of political science and helps students understand the practical and immediate uses of applying analytical approaches to the study of politics. This text is notable for its early coverage of methods and theory

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American Government and Politics Today: Essentials 2011 – 2012 Edition, 16th Edition

mrblue — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:06:29 +0000

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY: THE ESSENTIALS 2011-2012 EDITION inspires students to join the exciting process of being active, informed citizens. Bardes, Shelley, and Schmidt provide an unbiased and concisely organized overview of this essential subject, updated with complete Election 2010 coverage and the latest on the economic

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Comrades!: A History of World Communism

mrblue — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:17:24 +0000

In this incisive study, Service (A History of Modern Russia) surveys the varieties of communist ideologies (from Marx to Marcuse) and regimes (the Soviet Union getting the lion’s share of attention) and finds a coherent pattern, which he forthrightly labels totalitarianism. Communism’s hallmarks, he argues, include violent

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Direct Democracy Worldwide

mrblue — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:17:53 +0000

Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings and uncovers the conditions that allow them to coexist in a mutually reinforcing manner. Whereas citizen-initiated mechanisms

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Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

mrblue — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:28:16 +0000

Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward, but most people don’t read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often inoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists.

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