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Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for high school and college students curious about the history of voting rights in the United States.

Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present.

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Hirschbein explores what it means if a voter votes-or doesn't-in American mass society.

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Voting difficulties hung over America's presidential election in 2000 like a dark cloud. Hanging chads, a butterfly ballot, and the Supreme Court remain the most vivid memories of that political donnybrook.

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How do voters make decisions in low-information elections How distinctive are these voting decisions Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballo

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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its

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The first systematic study about what effect the electoral participation of ex-military leaders in Africa has on post-war security

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The first systematic study about what effect the electoral participation of ex-military leaders in Africa has on post-war security

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Examines the relationship between elections and policy making in America.

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Examines the relationship between elections and policy making in America.

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The bonds that connect people to each other and to the other organisms with whom we share this planet are insoluble. To have a chance at liberty and justice for all, we must ratify a Declaration of Dependence: The family that matters is the ONE we all belong to. Let's build it. This book's the blueprint.

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This up-to-date treatment of contemporary West German politics is written by established specialists. Policy implications of changes in recent German politics are investigated, as well as the link of those changes to economics. An empirical explanation of West German political opinion is also provided.

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Argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, the author contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. He offers a bold defense of democratic ideals, grounded in real reforms.

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An extraordinary look at the formative years of some of our most prominent and influential politicians.

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Argues that almost all successful nation-state projects have been associated with a particular political institution prior to independence: the segment-state, a jurisdiction defined by both human and territorial boundaries.

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Offers the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior ministers - the book asks a number of pressing questions about the relationship.

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This book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Governments failure to depoliticise its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government.

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Challenging the traditional belief that Hitler's supporters were largely from the lower middle class, Richard F. Hamilton analyzes Nazi electoral successes by turning to previously untapped sources--urban voting records. This examination of data from a series of elections in fourteen of the largest German cities shows that in most of them the vote

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Compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout.

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Why Americans Don't Vote is a well-crafted and well-executed piece of research. I recommend this book highly, both to those interested in understanding political participation and to those interested in modelling change in attitudes and behaviors generally.