Author: Eric McGhee
Publisher: Public Policy Institute of California
Keywords: partisanship, legislative, redistricting
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2008-09-10
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1582131317
ISBN-13: 9781582131313

Partisan rigidity and distaste for compromise receive much of the blame for continuing legislative deadlock in Sacramento-typified by regular annual stalemates over the state budget. More specific blame is often focused on the 2001 redistricting process, in which the Legislature created new, safe, state and Congressional election districts in such a way that Republican-held seats were made more Republican and Democratic-held seats more Democratic. Movements to reform the redistricting process-to give the responsibility to some body independent of the state Legislature-have been unsuccessful so

Authors:Reinhard Bendix, Guenther Roth,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: weber, max, essays, partisanship, scholarship
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1980-07-18
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520041712
ISBN-13: 9780520041714

Author: Mark Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: partisanship, political, culture, britain, stuart, misrepresentation, later, representation
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-11-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199258341
ISBN-13: 9780199258345

In this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675-1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict.

Author: Ronald Brownstein
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: washington, polarized, america, paralyzed, partisanship, civil, war, extreme, second
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0143114328
ISBN-13: 9780143114321

A “timely and compelling” analysis of America’s bitterly divisive partisan politics (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened? In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling politics into the margins and leaving precious little common ground for

Author: Juliet Eilperi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: politics, hoover, studies, economics, representatives, society, house, club, partisanship, poisoning, fight
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-05-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0742551199
ISBN-13: 9780742551190

The function of the U.S. House of Representatives is to serve as the body of government closest to ordinary citizens, reflecting their needs and desires. Yet, over the past decade, the House’s drift from its roots has given rise to Republicans’ ability to capture control of the chamber from a 40-year Democratic rule. Factors including House rules that have curtailed dissent and more powerful party leaders perpetuate this national divide This book shows how average Americans have little say over what happens in the House, and what can be done about it.

Authors:Kyle Cheek, Anthony Champagne,
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Keywords: politics, teaching, texts, law, courts, money, texas, partisanship, judicial, state
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-11-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820467677
ISBN-13: 9780820467672

In recent years, judicial elections have changed dramatically. The elections themselves have become increasingly partisan, interest group involvement in judicial races has escalated, recent court decisions have freed judicial candidates to speak more openly than ever before about their judicial ideologies, and the tenor of judicial campaigns has departed significantly from what were once low-key, sleepy affairs. This book examines the evolution of the new rough-and-tumble politics of judicial elections by focusing on Texas, a bellwether for the new judicial selection politics in America. The T

Authors:Rodney Haddow, Thomas Klasse,
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: comparative, policy, perspective, studies, political, public, economy, four, canadian, globalization, labour, market, partisanship, provinces
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-06-10
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0802090907
ISBN-13: 9780802090904

Globalization is widely believed to have restricted the freedom of policy makers – many fear that the forces of a global economy prevent different political parties from making substantially distinctive policy choices. In Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy, Rodney Haddow and Thomas Klassen explore this contentious issue by comparing labour market policy in Canada’s most populous provinces, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta, between 1990 and 2003.Using the most up-to-date theoretical approaches available, Haddow and Klassen examine industrial relations