Product Description: 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 issue structure shape electoral conflict? William J...read more

Product Description: The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution...read more

Product Description: 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 easily from Democratic or Republican presidencies, coupled with Republican or Democratic Congresses? How can the vast array of issues and personalities that have surfaced in American politics over the last forty years fit so neatly within--indeed, reinforce--the sustaining political pattern of our time? These big questions constitute the puzzle of modern American politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Election 2000: Aberration or paradigm? The essays in this innovative volume, combining scholarly and journalistic views, seek to place the extraordinary events of the 2000 presidential election into context with the trends of electoral politics before and after...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this defining statement about the state of the discipline, a "who's who" of prominent scholars addresses and critiques the entire sweep of American political history. Exemplifying the revitalizing power of the "new political history" and its renewed emphasis on large "P" politics, these writers have combined to produce an illuminating synthesis of the most recent work in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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 institutions, social forces with public policy. As a result, a focus on partisanship brings many of the specific contestants, policies, conflicts, and coalitions - the guts of politics as it is normally understood - back into view...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Five distinguished scholars here summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. The first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, it offers a unique perspective on ritual and its cultural significance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For introductory American politics courses, this is a diverse collection of lively and provocative assessments of the evolution of American politics across the postwar period, focusing on these elements: parties, society, institutions, culture, issues, agendas, and coalitions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This concise, comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seventhe United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Italyfrom the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War...read more

Product Description: 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 that ensure the continuation of "divided government?"In The Two Majorities Byron Shafer and William Claggett offer groundbreaking political analysis that resolves many of the seeming contradictions in the contemporary American political scene...read more

Product Description: "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 its subsequent evolution, and marking it off from the experience of other developed nations...read more

Product Description: Electoral realignment, referring originally to a major shift in party preferences within the general public, has been one of the most successful theories in modern social science.  Since V. O. Key introduced the theory in his seminal articles in the 1950s, it has been the reigning explanation for patterns of electoral behavior in American history...read more

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Product Description: 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 portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution--a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics...read more

Product Description: Uses the current popular debate about the shape of American politics to introduce a more fundamental examination of its changing structure. The outlines of this changing structure then become the means to speculate about possibilities for further change, and about the apparent permanence of this new political order...read more

Essays survey the roles and tactics of voters, activists, and candidates in presidential campaigns, including delegate selection, financing, and nomination reforms