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Product Description: The sixteen readings in this volume, all of which are newly selected for this fourth edition, and most of which are reproduced in their entirety, are organized around six debates: Why is voter turnout low, and why is it declining? Does the public's lack of political information matter? What determines the vote, and to what extent do campaigns matter? Is divided government intentional on the part of voters? How much does politics affect party identification? Is the party system changing? Niemi and Weisberg supply section introductions that weave the readings together, establish useful context, and help to sort out conflicting interpretations and diverging opinions that emerge across the chapters...read more

Product Description: Reflecting recent developments in the field, this timely new edition gives an indispensable state-of-the art review of the whole field from the world’s leading international scholars. With a completely new thematic introduction which explores how democracy is built and sustained, thoroughly updated chapters (many of which are also new) , the Third Edition provides a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and introduces important work on key new areas...read more

Product Description: Reflecting recent developments in the field, this timely new edition gives an indispensable state-of-the art review of the whole field from the world’s leading international scholars. With a completely new thematic introduction which explores how democracy is built and sustained, thoroughly updated chapters (many of which are also new) , the Third Edition provides a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and introduces important work on key new areas...read more

Product Description: In more than 230 tables and figures, students, professionals and citizens will find critical information on subjects such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of U.S. government, and foreign, military, social, and economic policy...read more

Product Description: There is no other print source, online source, or Web search engine that provides the wide range and depth of insight found in Vital Statistics on American Politics. This new edition is updated with the most recent information available, including data on the 2006 congressional, and gubernatorial elections...read more

Product Description: Legislative term limits adopted in the 1990s are in effect in fifteen states today. This reform is arguably the most significant institutional change in American government of recent decades. Most of the legislatures in these fifteen states have experienced a complete turnover of their membership; hundreds of experienced lawmakers have become ineligible for reelection, and their replacements must learn and perform their jobs in as few as six years...read more

Product Description: Legislative term limits adopted in the 1990s are in effect in fifteen states today. This reform is arguably the most significant institutional change in American government of recent decades. Most of the legislatures in these fifteen states have experienced a complete turnover of their membership; hundreds of experienced lawmakers have become ineligible for reelection, and their replacements must learn and perform their jobs in as few as six years...read more

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Product Description: There is no other print source, online source, or web search engine that provides the wide range and depth of insight found in Vital Statistics on American Politics. This new edition is updated with the most recent information available, including data on the 2004 presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections...read more

Product Description: This important book takes a fresh look at what America's high school seniors know about government and politics and how they learn it. "In this timely and persuasive book, Niemi and Junn provide the best evidence to date that civic education does make a difference in political learning and that certain curricular aspects facilitate that learning...read more

Product Description: The first edition of Comparing Democracies was a landmark text, providing students with a thematic introduction to the global study of elections and voting. In this major new edition the world's leading international scholars have again produced an indispensable guide and up-to-date review of the whole field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Updated with the latest information, this rich resource of data gives you more than 200 tables and charts covering the full spectrum of American politics. Formerly available on CD-ROM, this new edition is available electronically on the World Wide Web with your purchase of the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sixteen readings in this volume, all of which are newly selected for this fourth edition, and most of which are reproduced in their entirety, are organized around six debates: Why is voter turnout low, and why is it declining? Does the public's lack of political information matter? What determines the vote, and to what extent do campaigns matter? Is divided government intentional on the part of voters? How much does politics affect party identification? Is the party system changing? Niemi and Weisberg supply section introductions that weave the readings together, establish useful context, and help to sort out conflicting interpretations and diverging opinions that emerge across the chapters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and finally legislatures as institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Updated with the latest information and reorganized to be a more useful ready-reference source for students, researchers, and everyone interested in American government, this rich resource of data features over 200 tables and figures, covering the spectrum of American politics...read more

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Product Description: Now back in print, this reader brings together the best work in the study of American voting behavior. It's contents, from the 1950s-mid 1980s, include election turnout, political sophistication, vote determinants, congressional and state elections, party identification, and historical perspectives...read more

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