Montesquieu and the Challenges of the American Founding
The most comprehensive account of Montesquieu's influence on the debates over the Constitution during the American founding. Few thinkers loom larger over the American founding than Montesquieu. The Framers repeatedly invoked his authority while drafting, debating, and ratifying the Constitution-yet the true depth and complexity of his influence ......
The Long War for the Supreme Court-and Why Republicans Are Currently Winning
An essential history of how both parties fought for control of the Supreme Court-and how Republicans have seized the advantage. In Supreme Control, leading Supreme Court scholar Lucas A. Powe, Jr. explains how the United States arrived at the Republican-dominated Roberts Court that is transforming constitutional law and reshaping everyday ......
Designed especially for students of politics, and anyone interested in British democracy, this book encourages readers to become critical citizens able to identify challenges, engage with debates, and propose practical reforms, demystifying an institution often misunderstood as weak or outdated. Drawing on historical institutionalism, the book ......
Designed especially for students of politics, and anyone interested in British democracy, this book encourages readers to become critical citizens able to identify challenges, engage with debates, and propose practical reforms, demystifying an institution often misunderstood as weak or outdated. Drawing on historical institutionalism, the book ......
The full story behind the six words that reshaped Republican fiscal politics--and still haunt American governance today. "Read my lips: no new taxes." With that electrifying pledge at the 1988 Republican National Convention, George H. W. Bush sealed his nomination and unified a party. The promise became one of the most famous-and most ......
The full story behind the six words that reshaped Republican fiscal politics--and still haunt American governance today. "Read my lips: no new taxes." With that electrifying pledge at the 1988 Republican National Convention, George H. W. Bush sealed his nomination and unified a party. The promise became one of the most famous-and most ......
James O. Heath's Deep South Democrats is the story of three men who redefined the southern political landscape through unique voting records in health, housing, labor, and education. Olin Johnston of South Carolina and John Sparkman and Lister Hill of Alabama contributed to the massive impact of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the southern ......
J. Samuel Walker recounts the dramatic standoff between a populist Republican president and protesting college students-and what the crisis of higher education under President Nixon can teach us today. College students frustrated with the state of American society and foreign policy under a Republican president, rising up in protest across the ......
The Trump Elections and the Future of American Politics
A provocative and timely examination of how the American political parties have brought us to a crossroads for democracy-and where these new paths lead for the fragile American republic. Our recent elections have been anything but normal. In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel unravel the ......
