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Broken Record

The Origins and Evolution of Recorded Voting in the U.S. Congress

By Michael Steven Lynch & Anthony Joseph Madonna
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Yay or Nay? Exploring how roll call voting has contributed to political polarization

Strategic Responsiveness

How Congress Confronts Presidential Power

By Scott H Ainsworth, Brian M Harward, and Kenneth W Moffett
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Revealing the role of policy in the struggle for power between Congress and the president

The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.

Why We Have the System We Have

By Diana Dwyre & Robin Kolodny
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics

Why the U.S. campaign finance system is difficult to fix

Generational Politics in the United States

From the Silents to Gen Z and Beyond

Edited by Sally Friedman & David Schultz
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Communication

How generational change impacts the future of American politics

Assault on the Media

The Nixon Years

New and expanded edition, Updated with Analysis of 21st Century Threats to Democracy

By William Earl Porter & Thomas A. Mascaro
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Communication

Taking a 21st century look at the lasting effects of Nixon-era attacks on journalism

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

By Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Tracking Pop

How music defines US presidential campaigns
 

Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M. Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

Administering Justice

Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics

By Richard L. Vining & Teena Wilhelm
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Judicial Politics

The role and power of state chief justices in and out of the courtroom

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone?

How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy

By Srinivas Parinandi
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, American Politics

Renewable energy policies and the politics of resource management

Twilight of the American State

By Pierre Schlag
Subjects: Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, American Politics

The American law state's many personalities create its political-legal dysfunction, setting the stage for new eras including the rise of Trump

Gendered Pluralism

By Katherine Tate & Belinda Robnett
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, American Politics
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines the extent to which gender influences the political policy views and attitudes of women

Still a Hollow Hope

State Power and the Second Amendment

By Anthony D Cooling
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Political Theory, American Politics

Federalism still matters

Home Field Advantage

Roots, Reelection, and Representation in the Modern Congress

By Charles R Hunt
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Investigates the effects of legislators’ local roots on congressional campaigns, elections, and representation

Isolation and Engagement

Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy to Nixon

By William Waltman Newmann
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, International Relations, American Politics

Personal presidential style profoundly affects China policy, both in and outside the administration

Cops, Teachers, Counselors

Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service

Second Edition, New and expanded edition

By Steven Williams Maynard-Moody & Michael Craig Musheno
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, American Politics, Sociology

A penetrating look at how government workers make sense of their work, ascribe identity to the people they encounter, and account for their decisions and actions

Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics

By David Taras & Richard Davis
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Political Science, Political Communication, American Politics

One Tweet to rule them all

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

New Edition, Updated

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

Far from the brink

The Committee

A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama’s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill

2nd Edition, With a New Preface

By Bryan William Marshall & Bruce C. Wolpe
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021

Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights

Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

By Benjamin George Bishin, Thomas Joseph Hayes, Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo, and Charles Anthony Smith
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Human Rights

Grassroots America supports LBGTQ rights even when leaders do not

Minority Party Misery

Political Powerlessness and Electoral Disengagement

By Jacob F.H. Smith
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

When lawmakers take their ball and go home

Informing a Nation

The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

By Mel Laracey
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, History, American History

How a dynamic, controversially elected president used the media to promote his image and policies

The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900

By Peverill Squire
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political History, Governance

Telling Congress What To Do

Citizenship in the American Republic

By Brian L. Fife
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Governance

Creating a more perfect union, one citizen at a time

The Politics of Herding Cats

When Congressional Leaders Fail

By John Lovett
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Congressional leaders compete with the media for control over public policy

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