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  • Public Financing in American Electionsby Costas Panagopoulos

    Temple University Press 2011; US$ 32.95

    Reformers argue that public financing of campaigns will help rescue American democracy from the corruptive influence of money in elections. Public Financing in American Elections evaluates this claim and aims to remove much of the guesswork from the discussion about public finance. Featuring some of the most senior scholars in political science... more...

  • Follow the Leader?by Gabriel S. Lenz

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50

      In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters consider candidates’ policy positions... more...

  • Leading Menby Jackson Katz

    Interlink Publishing 2012; US$ 16.00

    Why Americans always elect men as presidents? It?s no secret that there is a wide?and growing?gender gap in American presidential politics. Over the past thirty years, Democrats have made major gains with women, while Republicans have been doing far better with men ?especially white working class men. The question is why? In Leading Men , Jackson... more...

  • Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracyby Laurent Bernhard

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with campaign managers to provide a comprehensive analysis of direct-democratic campaigning. more...

  • Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reformby Dr Michael Drolet

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 155.00

    Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. This study explores the intellectual and social context of... more...

  • Voting Hopes or Fears?by Keith Reeves

    Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 29.99

    Through experimental studies, this book provides fresh empirical evidence that the issue of race still pervades the consciousness of American society and prevents blacks from winning elections in districts where whites comprise a majority of the electorate. more...

  • The Thumpin'by Naftali Bendavid

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 23.95

    In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic party ended twelve years of electoral humiliation by seizing back Congress and putting an end to Republican rule. The Thumpin? is the story of that historic victory and the man at the center on whom Democratic hopes hinged: Congressman Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee... more...

  • Sideshow: dumbing down democracyby Lindsay Tanner

    Scribe Publications 2011; US$ 16.99

    ‘After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are retreating into an entertainment frame that has little tolerance for complex social and economic issues. In turn, politicians... more...

  • Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville; Sanford Kessler; Stephen D. Grant

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2000; US$ 9.95

    This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgments--including his discussions of enlightened self-interest and the public's influence on ethical standards. Judicious notes and a thoughtful Introduction... more...

  • Tocqueville on America after 1840by Aurelian Craiutu; Jeremy Jennings

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 28.00

    Tocqueville on America after 1840 provides access to Tocqueville's views on American politics from 1840 to 1859, revealing his shift in thinking and growing disenchantment with America. more...