This book interweaves rhetoric, history, and politics to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election and the political drama that engulfed Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Mean for 2024
Political scientists, journalists, and election experts provide students with a thorough exploration of the previous election cycle and what it portends for the future of electoral politics.
The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Mean for 2024
Political scientists, journalists, and election experts provide students with a thorough exploration of the previous election cycle and what it portends for the future of electoral politics.
The first documentary introduction to American government allows students to experience directly the inner workings of American politics. A brief introductory headnote and guiding questions support each document, while carefully curated excerpts focus student's attention on the most salient characteristics of each source.
The first documentary introduction to American government allows students to experience directly the inner workings of American politics. A brief introductory headnote and guiding questions support each document, while carefully curated excerpts focus student's attention on the most salient characteristics of each source.
Shines a light on the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from George Washington to the Progressive Era Drawing from the monumental The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History, published in 2016, the nation's foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the ......
Applying concepts derived from the study of international and comparative politics, this book offers an analysis of the impact of globalization on United States domestic politics. It is of interest to politicians, policymakers, and students looking for a discussion of globalization that is grounded in political history of the United States.
The Politics of Congressional Elections is the most authoritative and accessible introduction available on congressional elections and the electoral process. By pairing historical data analysis and original research with fundamental concepts of representation and responsibility, Carson and Jacobson help students develop the tools to evaluate ......
Roland D. Sawyer was a Western Massachusetts state legislator who, over a half-century in politics, tackled some of the state's thorniest issues. The Political Life of Reverend Roland D. Sawyer by Tyler L. Wolanin offers insight into legislative politics in Massachusetts as it underwent political and economic transitions, urbanization, and unrest. ......
The Era of Political Partisanship on the U.S. Supreme Court
This book provides a thorough overview of two decades of election law cases and sheds light on the impact these decisions have had on remaking America's electoral institutions.
A clear and comprehensive overview of presidential impeachment from a leading expert in the field As a result of Donald Trump's presidency, impeachment was once again thrust into the spotlight of American political discussion. However, its history goes back to the very founding of the nation, when American colonists, remembering their ......
Second edition featuring a new foreword and afterword.The modern presidency has become the biggest fault line of polarization in America--the executive power to reshape American life and law has expanded beyond anything the Founding Fathers could have imagined. In this provocative book, author Gene Healy argues that the fault lies not in our ......
How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America
Understanding the greatest catastrophic failure of American Government. In 2022, Ira Shapiro completed what Brooking scholar William A. Galston called "an epic trilogy" chronicling the disastrous decline of the once-great Senate. The Founding Fathers gave the Senate many functions, but it had one overriding responsibility: to provide a check ......
Identifies how the relationships among citizens, legislatures, executive and organizational structures, and stakeholders interact, in order to better diagnose and solve problems in public management. This title takes that relational concept into realms of conceptualization and application.
The 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, possess a singular symbolic character for Russia and its leadership. President Vladimir Putin considers the Games a demonstration of Russia's growing international role and the success of his administration's policies. Many view a successful Olympics as integral to his presidency. But also Sochi presents ......
The U.S. Supreme Court is more important than ever in the lives of Americans. Its politicization, however, has hijacked its mission to provide equal justice under law. This book explains how politics, polarization and worldview - factors that affect everyone - have adversely influenced the Court and thus the nation.
The U.S. Supreme Court is as important as ever in the lives of Americans. Contrary to the image-enhancing claims of independence that many of its members claim, however, the Court's current supermajority has transformed it into a powerful political institution that wages ideological war meant to return the nation to a previous period, at the same ......
