The Search for American Political Development - 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 Search for American Political Development write by Karen Orren. This book was released on 2004-05-24. The Search for American Political Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.
The Supreme Court and American Political Development
The Supreme Court and American Political Development - 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 Supreme Court and American Political Development write by Ronald Kahn. This book was released on 2006-05-15. The Supreme Court and American Political Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative volume explores the evolution of constitutional doctrine as elaborated by the Supreme Court. Moving beyond the traditional "law versus politics" perspective, the authors draw extensively on recent studies in American Political Development (APD) to present a much more complex and sophisticated view of the Court as both a legal and political entity. The contributors--including Pam Brandwein, Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, Ronald Kahn, Tom Keck, Ken Kersch, Wayne Moore, Carol Nackenoff, Julie Novkov, and Mark Tushnet--share an appreciation that the process of constitutional development involves a complex interplay between factors internal and external to the Court. They underscore the developmental nature of the Court, revealing how its decision-making and legal authority evolve in response to a variety of influences: not only laws and legal precedents, but also social and political movements, election returns and regime changes, advocacy group litigation, and the interpretive community of scholars, journalists, and lawyers. Initial chapters reexamine standard approaches to the question of causation in judicial decision-making and the relationship between the Court and the ambient political order. Next, a selection of historical case studies exemplifies how the Court constructs its own authority as it defines individual rights and the powers of government. They show how interpretations of the Reconstruction amendments inform our understanding of racial discrimination, explain the undermining of affirmative action after Bakke, and consider why Roe v. Wade has yet to be overturned. They also tell how the Court has collaborated with political coalitions to produce the New Deal, Great Society, and Reagan Revolution, and why Native Americans have different citizenship rights than other Americans. These contributions encourage further debate about the nature and processes of constitutional change and invite APD scholars to think about law and the Court in more sophisticated ways.
Race and American Political Development
Race and American Political Development - 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 Race and American Political Development write by Joseph E. Lowndes. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Race and American Political Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment’s dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention.
Conservatism and American Political Development
Conservatism and American Political Development - 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 Conservatism and American Political Development write by Brian J. Glenn. This book was released on 2009-02-26. Conservatism and American Political Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American political development (APD) is a core subfield in American political science, and focuses on political and policy history. For a variety of reasons, most of the focus in the twentieth century APD has been on liberal policymaking. Yet since the 1970s, conservatives have gradually assumed control over numerous federal policymaking institutions. This edited book will be the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the impact of conservatism on twentieth century American political development, locating its origins in the New Deal and then focusing on how conservatives acted within government once they began to achieve power in the late 1960s. The book is divided into three eras, and in each it focuses on three core issues: social security, the environment, and education. Throughout, the authors emphasize the ironic role of conservatism in the expansion of the American state. Scholars of the state have long focuses on liberalism because liberals were the architects of state expansion. However, as conservatives increased their presence in the federal apparatus, they were frequently co-opted into maintaining of even expanding public fiscal and regulatory power. At times, conservatives also came to accept the existence of the liberal state, but attempted to use it to achieve conservative policy ends. Despite conservatives' power in the US politics and governance, the American state remains gargantuan. As Conservatism and American Political Development shows, the new right has not only helped shape the state, but has been shaped by it as well.
Nature and History in American Political Development
Nature and History in American Political Development - 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 Nature and History in American Political Development write by James W. Ceaser. This book was released on 2006-03-31. Nature and History in American Political Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, Ceaser traces how certain “foundational” ideas—including nature, history, and religion—have been understood and used over the course of American history. Three commentators challenge his arguments, and a spirited debate about large and enduring questions in American politics ensues.
