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Contributors to this volume, from established democracies, new and restored democracies, and democracies facing destabilizing pressure, examine the extent to which electoral politics in their countries have been affected by the emergence of high-tech professional campaigns.

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Argues that voters are eminently capable of playing an efficacious role in democratic politics and of routinely demonstrating the ability to evaluate competing stewards in a discriminating manner. This book offers a cognitively based model of voting and uses a normal vote approach to analyzing local-level election returns.

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An examination of the political manoeuvring of William Borah and Hiram Johnson, two of the post-war leaders of Republican progressivism to prevent U.S. entry into the League of Nations despite overwhelming bipartisan support.

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This authoritative study provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the current political, economic, and social situation in Portugal.

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Our society's institutional infrastructuresour democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishmentwere all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment.

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Our society's institutional infrastructuresour democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishmentwere all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment.

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This work challenges the view that post-Mao China has moved away from communist totalitarianism and that totalitarianism is an outdated paradigm for China studies. It evaluates the changes across the major empirical aspects of regime change - political, ideological, economic, legal and social.

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This conceptual framework allows readers to study long-term continuity and change in the presidency and in America.

In an age of specialization, when most historical studies of individual presidents are hundreds, even thousands of pages long, Saunders gives readers a brief, interpretive overview of select presidents.

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This conceptual framework allows readers to study long-term continuity and change in the presidency and in America.

In an age of specialization, when most historical studies of individual presidents are hundreds, even thousands of pages long, Saunders gives readers a brief, interpretive overview of select presidents.

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This book demonstrates that the Founders did not intend to confer on the president a power equivalent to the royal prerogative of suspending the laws, which was stripped from the English Crown in 1689.

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A guide to the strategies of candidates and political parties during American presidential election campaigns. The authors identify the important factors that determine the American political environment and examine the importance of primaries and the role of public financing and debates.

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In the past several decades, the country has seen some incumbent presidents win second terms by margins previously believed to be unattainable, yet has witnessed defeats of more incumbents than at any time in our national history.

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The American presidency is the single most important political office in the United States, but it is also a complex institution that scholars and the general public still do not fully understand.

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The French Fifth Republic Presidency has emerged as a powerful executive in western society. This book is a study of how that was possible and of the way in which the power of the Presidency was created and maintained.

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The French Fifth Republic Presidency has emerged as a powerful executive in western society. This book is a study of how that was possible and of the way in which the power of the Presidency was created and maintained.

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Explores the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency in America. This study focuses on the nature and impact of "momentum" in the contemporary nominating system. It examines the consequences of some proposed alternatives to the nominating process, including a regional primary system and a one-day national primary.

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However, despite the Cold War and demands of international politics, these three presidents were continually involved in critical debates about the domestic future of America, and their roles and victories in these debates have left deep impressions upon American society.