Beyond the Electoral Connection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Electoral Connection write by Kim Ezra Shienbaum. This book was released on 2016-11-11. Beyond the Electoral Connection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American voting behavior has long been paradoxical. Although levels of voter participation increase with age, income, and education, middle- and upper-class voters—those who profess to hold the electoral process in the highest regard—still tend to cast their ballots by "image" rather than issue. Beyond the Electoral Connection provides a comprehensive analysis and systematic explanation of this fundamental paradox. Kim Ezra Shienbaum's unusually broad perspective leads her to conclude that the nature of American democracy has been altered in fundamental ways over the past thirty years. She asserts that voters have rationally adjusted their political behavior to cope with a system in which public policy outcomes are determined largely by judicial and bureaucratic politics rather than through electoral politics. Shienbaum concludes that for the average "smart" voter, a trip to the polls is little more than an act of political ritualism: a demonstration of support for the status quo.
Governing in a Polarized Age
Governing in a Polarized Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing in a Polarized Age write by Alan S. Gerber. This book was released on 2017-02-27. Governing in a Polarized Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance in contemporary American politics.
Congress
Congress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congress write by David R. Mayhew. This book was released on 2004-11-10. Congress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Any short list of major analyses of Congress must of necessity include David Mayhew’s Congress: The Electoral Connection." —Fred Greenstein In this second edition to a book that has achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues that the principal motivation of legislators is reelection and that the pursuit of this goal affects the way they behave and the way that they make public policy. In a new foreword for this edition, R. Douglas Arnold discusses why the book revolutionized the study of Congress and how it has stood the test of time.
Beyond the Boundaries
Beyond the Boundaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Boundaries write by Georgia A. Persons. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Beyond the Boundaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past, African American aspirations for political offi ce were assumed to be limited to areas with sizeable black population bases. By and large, black candidates have rarely been successful in statewide or national elections. This has been attributed to several factors: limited resources available to African American candidates, or identifi cation with a black liberationist ideological thrust. Other factors have been a relatively small and spatially concentrated primary support base of black voters, and the persistent resistance of many white voters to support black candidates. For these reasons, the possibility of black candidates winning elections to national offi ce was presumably just a dream. Conventional wisdom conceded a virtual cap on both the possible number of black elected officials and the level of elective offi ce to which they could ascend. But objective political analysis has not always made sufficient allowances for the more universal phenomenon of individual political ambitions. Th e contributors to this volume explore the ways ambitious individuals identifi ed and seized upon strategies that are expanding the boundaries of African American electoral politics. This volume is anchored by a symposium that focuses on new possibiities in African American politics. Both the electoral contests of 2006 and the Barack Obama presidential campaign represent an emergent dynamic in American electoral politics. Analysts are beginning to agree that the contours of social change now make the electoral successes of black candidates who are perceived as ideologically and culturally mainstream increasingly likely. The debate captured in this volume will likely inspire further scholarly inquiry into the changing nature and dimensions of the larger dynamic of race in American politics and the subsequent changing political fortunes of African American candidates.
Democracy Beyond Elections
Democracy Beyond Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy Beyond Elections write by Gergana Dimova. This book was released on 2019-08-28. Democracy Beyond Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of democracy. The empirical findings are based on an original database of 6000 media allegations and investigations in Russia, Germany and Bulgaria. Observations gained from the case studies are then placed in relation to a systematic analysis and critique of more than 100 models of the transformation and crisis of democracy. The book will be of particular interest to researchers focusing on democratic theory and political thought, as well as those working empirically in the field of democratic systems.
