The Picky Eagle - 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 The Picky Eagle write by Richard W. Maass. This book was released on 2020-05-15. The Picky Eagle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start. By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. US presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant political representation to a large alien population or subject it to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result, US leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely once no desirable targets remained. In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of US territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of US foreign policy and international relations.
American Rage
American Rage - 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 American Rage write by Steven W. Webster. This book was released on 2020-08-27. American Rage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anger is the central emotion governing US politics, lowering trust in government, weakening democratic values, and forging partisan loyalty.
Why Parties?
Why Parties? - 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 Why Parties? write by John H. Aldrich. This book was released on 2012-07-24. Why Parties? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in resurgence or decline and undertakes a wholesale reexamination of the foundations of the American party system. Surveying critical episodes in the development of American political parties—from their formation in the 1790s to the Civil War—Aldrich shows how they serve to combat three fundamental problems of democracy: how to regulate the number of people seeking public office, how to mobilize voters, and how to achieve and maintain the majorities needed to accomplish goals once in office. Aldrich brings this innovative account up to the present by looking at the profound changes in the character of political parties since World War II, especially in light of ongoing contemporary transformations, including the rise of the Republican Party in the South, and what those changes accomplish, such as the Obama Health Care plan. Finally, Why Parties? A Second Look offers a fuller consideration of party systems in general, especially the two-party system in the United States, and explains why this system is necessary for effective democracy.
Trust in a Polarized Age
Trust 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 Trust in a Polarized Age write by Kevin Vallier. This book was released on 2020-10-21. Trust in a Polarized Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did, fueling destructive ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. In Trust in a Polarized Age, political philosopher Kevin Vallier argues that to build social trust and reduce polarization, we must strengthen liberal democratic institutions--high-quality governance, procedural fairness, markets, social welfare programs, freedom of association, and democracy. Theseinstitutions not only create trust, they do so justly, by recognizing and respecting our basic rights.
American Hegemony
American Hegemony - 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 American Hegemony write by Demetrios Caraley. This book was released on 2004. American Hegemony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
