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Eternal Bandwagon
Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates …
Bifurcated Politics
Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. "Bifurcated Politics" is a …
The American Political Landscape
Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these rival camps through a merger of precise statistics and hard-won election …
The American Public Mind
What is the real nature of substantive conflict in mass politics during the postwar years in the United States? How is it reflected in the American public mind? And how does this …
The American Political Pattern
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American …
Partisan Approaches to Postwar American Politics
Parties have often been the central intermediaries of politics, gathering and presenting the main actors and the main programs, while linking individual citizens with governmental …
Is America Different?
`American Exceptionalism' is the scholarly term for the common perception that there is something different about American life, stemming from the origins of the United States and …
The Two Majorities
Why do voters so often exhibit patterns of policy preference vastly different from what analysts and strategists predict? And why do these same voters consistently cast ballots …
The Two Majorities and the Puzzle of Modern American Politics
Where did the Era of Divided Government come from? What sustains split partisan control of the institutions of American national government year after year? Why can it shift so …
The Long War over Party Structure
A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper structure for political parties and the relative power that should be afforded to party professionals versus issue …
American Political Landscape
Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these camps through a merger of statistics and election experience, The …
American Public Mind
What is the real nature of substantive conflict in mass politics during the postwar years in the United States? How is it reflected in the American public mind? And how does this …