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Financing the 2008 Electionby David B. Magleby; Anthony Corrado
Brookings Institution Press 2011; US$ 32.95The latest installment in a series that dates back half a century, Financing the 2008 Election is the definitive analysis of how campaign finance and spending shaped the historic presidential and congressional races of 2008. It explains why these records were set and what it means for the future of U.S. politics. David Magleby and Anthony Corrado have assembled a team of experts who join them in exploring the financing of the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. They provide insights into the political parties and interest groups that made campaign finance history and summarize important legal and regulatory changes that affected these elections. more...
Fixing Electionsby Steven Hill
Routledge 2003; US$ 27.95Fixing Elections is a refreshing blueprint to resurrect our founders' democratic vision by adopting common-sense changes already instituted in other democracies. It will change the way you think about American politics. more...
Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville; Joseph Epstein
Bantam Books 2004; US$ 4.99From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America --first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival." For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are... more...
The Good Fightby Ralph Nader
HarperCollins 2004; US$ 10.99The man who shook up American politics in 2000 -- and is doingso again in 2004 -- returns to hold both parties' feet to the fire with his straight talk about Bush, corporate government, and the whole political charade. Ralph Nader -- relentless activist, brilliant visionary -- may also be the most honest man we've got left in politics. And yet from the moment Nader declared his presidential candidacy on Meet the Press , he's faced relentless opposition, mainly from Democrats fearing that competition from an inspiring independent could dent their voting block "as it did in 2000." Even his old pals at The Nation joined in the party panic. more...
Voting At the Political Fault Lineby Bruce E. Cain; Elisabeth R. Gerber
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the frontier of political reform. more...
Campaign Contributions and Legislative Votingby B Gordon Stacy
Routledge 2005; US$ 44.95This book studies the current paradox within the voting literature on campaign contributions and legislative voting behavior. more...
Welfare for Politicians?by John Samples
Cato Institute 2005; US$ 10.00Twenty-four U.S. states now fund campaigns for public office, and American taxpayers have contributed some 2 billion USD since 1976 to subsidize primary and general election campaigns for the presidency. In this book, more than a dozen experts offer a broad and sceptical assessment of taxpayer financing of election campaigns. more...
Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reformby Michael Drolet
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 140.00Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of "Democracy in America" and "The Ancien Regime and the Revolution" but he also investigated social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. This study explores the social context of these neglected writings. more...
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Centuryby Richard Franklin Bensel
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place in the nineteenth century, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making. more...
Voting in Americaby Robert E. DiClerico
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 50.00This work provides an examination of the people, forces, and events that have shaped the right, opportunities, and value of the vote in America from 1715 to the 21st century. It focuses on various legal, constitutional, and social barriers, and on what controversies still remain. more...