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Do federal, state, and local governments differ in their responsiveness to the needs of the poorest citizens Are policy outcomes different when federal officials have greater influence regarding the use of federal program funds To answer such questions, Michael Rich examines to what extent benefits of federal programs actually reach needy people,

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A dedicated politician who has served as a congressman and state legislator defines the formidable challenge for progressives after the November 2016 electionand explains how to bring back leaders focused on working in the broad center of politics in order to get things done for the people.

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Provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the US House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today.

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Since the 1960 national election, the nonpartisan Citizens Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance.

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The amount of money flowing through US politics continues to astound. "While not all expenditures are reported," writes David Magleby, "our best estimate is that at least number 8 billion was spent in the 2012 federal elections." This book examines the important changes and legal challenges to the law and regulation of campaign finance.

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Beginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level. Now, the latest in this respected series, Financing the 2016 Election, explores the role of money in one of the most unconventional elections in modern American history.

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Unique to this collection are documents relating to the establishment of constitutional governments in the original 13 states, debate over the Bill of Rights, and documents reflecting a variety of alternative voices, including letters and petitions from women and African-American and Native-American leaders.

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This book studies the history Americas political parties and the challenges they face today. In the 2016 primaries the anti-establishment candidates had an early advantage with a wild-card quality that resonated with modern voters, demonstrating how drastically Americas political climate has changed and the need for nonpartisan party reform.

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This book studies the history Americas political parties and the challenges they face today. In the 2016 primaries the anti-establishment candidates had an early advantage with a wild-card quality that resonated with modern voters, demonstrating how drastically Americas political climate has changed and the need for nonpartisan party reform.

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An in-depth look into how the news media frame referendum campaigns, based on the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. An analysis of the factors at play in journalistic coverage of complex and highly contested political campaigns -- .

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An in-depth look into how the news media frame referendum campaigns, based on the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. An analysis of the factors at play in journalistic coverage of complex and highly contested political campaigns -- .

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This title analyzes the substantive transformations brought upon the French state by European integration through an incremental and cumulative process generally described as "Europeanization". It also examines how regional integration affects French governmental structures.

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A Right to Bear Arms is the first book to document the deprivation of this right as a cause of the American Revolution and to trace the protection accorded to this right by the framers of the first state constitutions, which inspired the Second Amendment.

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Explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association, this book includes essays on individual rights of association and civic values of association.

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In the period from 1970 to the early 1990s, Republican leaders launched three major reforms of the federal system. Although all three initiatives advanced decentralization as a goal, they were remarkably different in their policy objectives, philosophical assumptions, patterns of politics, and policy outcomes.

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With the use of diagrams this work examines the non-partisan processes involved in defining new constituencies, in detail, illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.

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Sig Mickelson, former president of CBS News and pioneer in television coverage of political events, gives an eyewitness account of Television's complicated interaction with the U.S. political system.

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Sig Mickelson, former president of CBS News and pioneer in television coverage of political events, gives an eyewitness account of Television's complicated interaction with the U.S. political system.