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The American Political System
  • Language: en

The American Political System

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-15
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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton

A contemporary framework without the fluff, updated through the 2018 elections

The American Political System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 581

The American Political System

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-13
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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton

Empirical puzzles get students thinking like political scientists.

Dynamic Partisanship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Dynamic Partisanship

Introduction : why study dynamic partisanship? -- Partisanship : meaning and measurement -- Consistent partisanship models -- The United States -- Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom : the setup -- Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom : results -- Explaining partisanship dynamics -- Parties and partisanship.

Outside Lobbying
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Outside Lobbying

This work seeks to clarify why and when interest group leaders in Washigton, USA seek to mobilize the public order to influence policy decisions in Congress. It grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues.

Perils of Centralization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Perils of Centralization

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Ken Kollman examines the histories of the US government, the Catholic Church, General Motors, and the European Union as examples of federated systems that centralized power over time. He shows how their institutions became locked-in to intensive power in the executive. The problem with these and other federated systems is that they often cannot decentralize even if it makes sense. The analysis leads Kollman to suggest some surprising changes in institutional design for these four cases and for federated institutions everywhere.

The Formation of National Party Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The Formation of National Party Systems

Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in these four countries have been shaped by the authority granted to different levels of government. Departing from the conventional focus on social divisions or electoral rules in determining whether a party system will consist of national or regional parties, they argue instead that national party systems emerge when economic and political power resides with the national government. Regional parties...

Readings in American Politics
  • Language: en

Readings in American Politics

A reader with an analytical approach to American politics.

Readings in American Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

Readings in American Politics

A contemporary reader with an analytical approach to American politics.Introduces students to foundational works and recent scholarship that have shaped the way political scientists understand and analyze American government today.

Computational Models in Political Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Computational Models in Political Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The use of innovative computational models in political economic research as a complement to traditional analytical methodologies.

Basic Interests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Basic Interests

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a...