This very accessible book examines theoretical arguments on the nature of representation, the election process, and leadership battles, with a sharp focus on state legislative process and a critical examination of the election process. Articles taken from journals, press, and trade books provide access to scholarship and commentary that will allow readers to make informed judgements about the performance of the U.S. Congress and the various state legislatures.Contemporary Campaigns and Elections. Managing The Legislative Process. The Complex World of Legislative Policy Making. The Fate of Legislative Bodies In America. For anyone who is interested in Congress and state legislatures.

Contemplating the People's Branch: Legislative Dynamics in the Twenty First Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Shea, Daniel

Patterson, Kelly D.

Politics & Government

Pearson College Div

For courses in American Government Participate in your American government Revel™ Living Democracy shows students how American government impacts their daily lives and helps them recognize how they can make a difference in what that government does. Localizing politics whenever possible, authors Daniel Shea, Joanne Connor Green, and Christopher Smith help students understand that government and politics are not distant, abstract concepts but rather forces that shape their lives, now and in the future. Current coverage of the contemporary issues dominating today’s political landscape ensures that students walk away with a greater appreciation of how to use the political system to bring about a better nation. The 2018 Elections and Updates Edition offers new narrative coverage of the major issues from today’s headlines including the 2018 midterm elections, recent policy under the Trump administration, and the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook. NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. Before purchasing, check with your instructor to confirm the correct ISBN. Revel access is title-specific and edition-specific and is not transferable. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

Living Democracy, 2018 Elections and Updates Edition -- Revel Access Code

Connor Green, Joanne

Smith, Christopher

Pearson

For courses in American Government Participate in your American government Revel™ Living Democracy shows students how American government impacts their daily lives and helps them recognize how they can make a difference in what that government does. Localizing politics whenever possible, authors Daniel Shea, Joanne Connor Green, and Christopher Smith help students understand that government and politics are not distant, abstract concepts but rather forces that shape their lives, now and in the future. Current coverage of the contemporary issues dominating today’s political landscape ensures that students walk away with a greater appreciation of how to use the political system to bring about a better nation. The 2018 Elections and Updates Edition offers new narrative coverage of the major issues from today’s headlines including the 2018 midterm elections, recent policy under the Trump administration, and the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Revel is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook. NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. Before purchasing, check with your instructor to confirm the correct ISBN. Revel access is title-specific and edition-specific and is not transferable. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

Revel for Living Democracy, 2018 Elections and Updates Edition -- Combo Access Card

To many, the angry protestors at town hall meetings, the death threats toward politicians, the inflammatory language online and over the airwaves, and the language of politician themselves are making America politics an ugly, mean-spirited, and nasty affair. Can We Talk? presents a dream team of scholars and journalists who ask: <ul>
<li> Is politics really as nasty as many news commentators perceive? </li> <li> What are forces are changing the political discourse and who is to blame? </li> <li> How will this change transform the very nature of our democracy? </li> </ul>
Civility in politics is one of the great issues of our day, making Can We Talk? a must-read for all students of American government.

Can We Talk?: The Rise of Rude, Nasty, Stubborn Politics

Fiorina, Morris

History

The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backward, lazy, scared of the future, and radical. But is it that simple? Is the country splintering between two very different Americas-one rural, one urban? This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"-a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns. Combining a historical perspective with the largest-ever national survey of rural voters, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged and how it has roiled American politics. They show how perceptions of economic and social change, racial anxieties, and a traditional way of life under assault have converged into a belief in rural uniqueness and separateness. Rural America believes it rises and falls together, and that the Democratic Party stands in the way. An unparalleled exploration of rural partisanship, this book offers a timely warning that the chasm separating urban and rural Americans cannot be papered over with policies or rhetoric. Instead, The Rural Voter demonstrates, this division strikes at the heart of enduring conflicts over American identity.

Jacobs, Nicholas F.

Americas

Columbia University Press

"James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age starting with "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and maturing within "Ulysses". Like the mythopoets before him―Homer, Dante, Milton, Blake―Joyce consciously sets out to encapsulate his vision of a splintered and rapidly changing reality into a new aesthetic which alone is capable of successfully rendering the fullness of life in a meaningful way. Already reeling from the humanistic implications of an impersonal Newtonian universe, the Modern world now faced an Einsteinian one, a re-evaluation which includes Stephen's awakening from the "nightmare" of history, a re-definition of deity, and Bloom's urban identity. Written with both the experienced Joycean and the beginner in mind, this book tells how the Joycean myth is our own conception of the human being, and our place in the universe becomes (re)defined as definitively Modernist, yet still, through Molly Bloom's final affirmation, profoundly human.

James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism (Studies in English Literatures, 3)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

ibidem Press

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