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It was the best of elections; it was the worst of elections. The 2004 presidential contest mobilized a record number of voters, with 121 million Americans showing up at the polls.

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Vital Statistics on Congress remains the quintessential source of authoritative information on America's legislature. This important series tracks the elements that define and describe Congress in the postWorld War II era, and in this new edition, three of America's most esteemed political analysts extend their examination through the 109th Congress.

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President Vladimir Putin's consent after September 11th to the deployment of Western forces in Central Asia and to the US military's use of Central Asian airfields during the US-led operations in Afghanistan represented a dramatic turn in Russian Central Asian policy.

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Attempting to portray events as seen from the Russian perspective, Black (Russian and Soviet history, Carleton U., Canada) explores the development of Russian foreign policy from Vladimir Putin's 1999 appointment as acting president to the May 2002 summit between him and George W. Bush. He first off

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For Putin, the home front is a second front. His governments efforts to create and maintain a patriotic, or at least obedient, citizenry is the main subject, along with Moscows necessary pivot to the East for political and economic succour.

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The intuition that women are best represented by women, and African-Americans by other African-Americans, has deep historical roots. This book argues that the voice of these groups should be audible within the legislative process. It holds that the self-representation of these groups is necessary to sustain their trust in democratic institutions.

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This fascinating resource examines the day-to-day lives of early Christians-as depicted through documented accounts of the period-from the beginning of Christianity through 325 CE.

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In order to assess the impact of referendums on European integration, this study offers a comparative analysis of referendums that have occurred so far. It then draws on comparative data to analyze the consequences of referendums.

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A collection of documents of protest - including more than 500 essays, letters, articles, court decisions, song lyrics, press photographs, cartoons and more - that explores the history and undeniable power of social, political and religious dissent, worldwide and throughout history.

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This book spotlights individual expressions of atheist, agnostic, and secular humanist opinion-both public and private-to shed light on the phenomenon of religious disbelief throughout history and across cultures.

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Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism: The Radicalization of Change, by Christine Sixta Rinehart, concentrates on the origins of terrorism and what causes social movements to become terrorist organizations. The scope of the book includes four terrorist organizations: the Muslim Brotherhood, the ETA, the FARC, and the LTTE.

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Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant role in the development of these disciplines.

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Voluntarism, Planning, and the State presents a series of case studies of the planning process in the context of modern American history in the period between World War I and World War II.

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He contends that easier registration did facilitate black participation, yet racial countermobilization had almost no importance for increased white participation.

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Using voter turnout data and demographics, Niall Guy Michelsen argues that lowering the voting age to 16 would help young adults develop voting habits and raise voter turnout, closing the voting gap between college and non-college citizens and making the American electorate more representative of the countrys citizens.

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Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia.

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The book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the election system in the thirteen colonies. It describes in clear-cut fashion what provincial politics was about, who ran for office and why, how candidates were nominated and elected, how balloting took place, who could and did vote, and why they did so.

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