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"Winner of the Fenno Prize" Eric Schickler is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
From the 1910 overthrow of "Czar" Joseph Cannon to the reforms enacted when Republicans took over the House in 1995, institutional change within the U.S. Congress has been both a product and a shaper of congressional politics. For several decades, scholars have explained this process in terms of a particular collective...
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"Winner of the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration" Eric M. Patashnik is associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. His books include Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment.
Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics...
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"Winner of the Alan Rosenthal Prize, Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association" Alexander Bolton is assistant professor of political science at Emory University. Website alexanderbolton.com Twitter @alexbolton Sharece Thrower is associate professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Website sharecethrower.com Twitter @ShareceThrower
How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance...
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Matthew J. Lacombe is the Alexander P. Lamis Associate Professor in American Politics at Case Western Reserve University. He is the coauthor of Billionaires and Stealth Politics.
How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday Americans
The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" Emily Zackin is assistant professor of political science at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told,...
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John S. Lapinski is associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the deputy director of elections at NBC News. He is the coeditor of The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton).
Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, political scientists spend very little time studying the direct impact that the politics surrounding...
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"Winner of the 2008 J. David Greenstone Award, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2008 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association" Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Constitutional Interpretation and Constitutional Construction.
Should the Supreme Court have the...
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Justin Crowe is assistant professor of political science at Williams College.
How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move from political irrelevance to political centrality? Building the Judiciary uncovers the causes and consequences of judicial institution-building in the United States from the commencement of the new government in 1789 through...
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"Winner of the 2017 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association" "Co-Winner of the 2017 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association" Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Disjointed Pluralism and Filibuster (both Princeton).
Few transformations in American...
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"Winner of the Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" David Vogel is professor emeritus in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Politics of Precaution (Princeton) and The Market for Virtue.
A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California,...
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Kimberley S. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not born in a Big Bang, but instead emerged out of power struggles within the nation's major political institutions during the late nineteenth and early...
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"Winner of the 32nd D. B. Hardeman Prize, LBJ Foundation" "Winner of the V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association" David A. Bateman is assistant professor of government at Cornell University. Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His books include Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. John S. Lapinski is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor, professor of political...
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"Winner of the Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the Theory Prize, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association" Sarah L. Quinn is associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington.
How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities
Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed...
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"Winner of the 2019 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association" Devin Caughey is the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Chair and associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an...
15) Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
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"Winner of the 2016 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2017 V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association" Robert Mickey is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan.
The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted...
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"Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Paul Frymer is professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America...
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"Even in this precarious moment for American democracy, the institutions of American federalism-that is, state governments-remain almost universally lauded. For many, the present era of national partisan polarization makes local politics even more appealing. The truth about federalism in this polarized age, however, is a bit more concerning, as Grumbach details. As the state level has become an increasingly important site of public policies that affect...
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"From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people--instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate investigates the electoral connections among constituents, state legislators, political parties, and U.S. senators during the age of indirect elections....
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