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The 2020 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this third edition of Elaine Kamarck's Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them. Updated to include the 2016 election, it will once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating system that gave the American electorate a choice between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

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Suitable for historians or students of British politics during the post-war years, this book concentrates on the Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath years when the battle between the Civil Service and the Government was at its most intense.

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Each chapter in this book presents a unique case study evaluating a political leader or leaders. The contributors present research evaluating relationships between personality, leadership, decision-making and behaviour among political leaders.

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Choice

The presidential election of 1912 was critical in American history, defining not only the Progressive Era, but setting domestic political standards that remained implicitly or explicitly influential until the second Nixon administration.

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Traces the history of, and analyzes, the current status of the law on a number of prohibited acts forbidden to the federal government as prescribed in Article I, Section 9, of the United States Constitution.

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The opening chapter sets current United States' endeavors at promoting democracy into historical context, describing the American sense of mission regarding the promotion of democracy.

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This book examines the role of women involved in South Koreas democratization movement. Through its study of older women and the gender roles and values of Korean society manifested in the Mothers movement, this book challenges social movement theories that focus on those on the front line but ignore those behind the scenes.

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This book examines the role of women involved in South Koreas democratization movement. Through its study of older women and the gender roles and values of Korean society manifested in the Mothers movement, this book challenges social movement theories that focus on those on the front line but ignore those behind the scenes.

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Shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. This book finds that the media - while far from ideal - do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives.

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This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrates how and why collective bargaining has become the basic and accepted procedure in the settlement of disputes between labor and management.

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Jason Frank's Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political philosophers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publiu...

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Ronald T. Libby's Purging the Republican Party examines Tea Party primary campaigns against Republicans including the defeats of Dede Scozzafava in New York and Bob Bennett in Utah, and the election of Marco Rubio in Florida. It includes an assessment of the Tea Partys political prospects following the 2012 elections and beyond.

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Focuses on Texas politics. This work explores the complicated relations between the politically disorganized Texas blue-collar class and the 'rich and the fabulously rich', whose interests have been protected by 'brilliant practitioners of horse trading, guile, the jovial but serious threat, the offer that can't be refused'.

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Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting covers fifty years of redistricting in California, tracing the interaction between race and partisanship and directly tying Californias successes and failures to the wider issue of redistricting in the United States.

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This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade.

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This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.S. Constitution, covering more than 170 proposals from the nation's beginnings to the present day.

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Aeron Davis looks at the growing crisis of leadership in Britain today. He argues that increasingly self-interested elites are not only damaging society they are destroying the basis of Establishment rule itself. The book, based on over 350 elite interviews, asks: how did we end up producing the leaders that got us here and what can we do about it

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Mann reorganized the Republicans and placed them strategically on the issueseconomic conservatism domestically and military preparedness internationallythat led to an incremental recovery over nearly a decade.

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Why did the Soviet system fail How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse This title provides answers to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution" - fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era.