The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place where the policy-making process most frequently ......
A bold and unique introduction to UK Politics. This is the first textbook which breaks free from the conventional approaches that revolve around the Westminster bubble, instead drawing upon the diverse challenges facing citizens and decision-makers today. Leading experts are brought together in this carefully edited collection that spans traditional and critical approaches. Politics in the UK highlights central concerns facing British politics today, from ongoing colonial legacies to Britain's inequality and the impact of decades of austerity. Spotlighted throughout are timely examples and latest research, drawing on topics spanning policy responses to climate change and the role of social class in educational outcomes; to the latest calls for increased devolution and shifting public opinion on UK Foreign Policy. This textbook is packed with features, including: ? Case Studies to encourage critical thinking by presenting different perspectives on key events. ? Theory Boxes which explore concepts in action. ? Spotlight on Research showcases seminal and controversial publications to spark debate. ? Annotated Reading Lists guide students to further readings. Unique to this text is a central focus on the role identities and inequalities play in contemporary British Politics. It offers students the tools to conduct analysis into the shifting dynamics in this major new action-focussed, problem-based, and engaging introduction. And centrally, the book offers a compelling call to action - that is how we all have the capacity to shape British politics every day. Politics in the UK is essential reading for any undergraduate student studying UK or British Politics. Joanie Willett - Associate Professor in Politics, University of Exeter, UK Arianna Giovannini - Associate Professor in Local Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, UK
Power and Politics in the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 9 features articles from multiple disciplines that use the C-SPAN Video Library to explore recent controversies in American politics. Topics covered include Supreme Court nominations, Supreme Court oral arguments, rhetoric on disasters and COVID-19, and the effect of ......
Power and Politics in the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 9 features articles from multiple disciplines that use the C-SPAN Video Library to explore recent controversies in American politics. Topics covered include Supreme Court nominations, Supreme Court oral arguments, rhetoric on disasters and COVID-19, and the effect of ......
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza-a story of ambition, ......
How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land-the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center-but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political ......
The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women
Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSpeaking of cabinet appointments he'd made as governor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously spoke of having "whole binders full of women" to consider. The line was much mocked; and yet, Kaitlin Sidorsky suggests, it raises a point long overlooked in discussions of the gender gap in politics: many more women ......
The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it's easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbulent 1960s, even as battles over civil rights and the war in Vietnam dominated American politics, bipartisanship often prevailed. One key reason: two remarkable leaders who remain giants of the ......
How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land-the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center-but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political ......
