KEY BENEFIT Very readable and interesting, this book provides analyses of contemporary U.S. government and politics issues. One or two substantial essays are devoted to each of the major political topics of the day. It is the ideal supplement to any standard American Government book. KEY TOPICS The presidency, political parties, the media, congress, the courts, foreign policy. MARKET For readers who are interested in an analysis of the major political issues of the day and how these issues affect their lives.

Contemporary Readings in American Government

Politics & Social Sciences

White, John Kenneth

Rozell, Mark J.

Politics & Government

PRENTICE/HALL

From Democrats to Republicans, from the Green Party to the Tea Party, American parties and their politics are continuously adapting, renewing, and evolving to meet the challenges of the times. Party On!: Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Today's Networked Age captures these nuances with a cohesive theme, hard data, and a spotlight on new media that includes "Parties in a Networked Age" theme boxes. Authors John White and Matt Kerbel guide students on a journey from the origins of American political parties through a multitude of reorganizations, technological developments, and financial woes. With finesse and insight, Party On! offers a sweeping view of political parties up to the eve of the 2012 elections.

Party On!: Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Today's Networked Age

Kerbel, Matthew R.

Oxford University Press

The authors of this fresh new text on American political parties employ an engaging writing style, a strong historical foundation, and a new analogy for understanding party systems to produce a compelling textbook. White and Shea trace the evolution of parties from the late 18th century through the Information Age, examining the impact of new information technologies throughout the text.

New Party Politics: From Jefferson and Hamilton to the Information Age

Education & Teaching

Shea, Daniel M.

Schools & Teaching

Wadsworth Publishing

The authors of this fresh text on American political parties employ an engaging writing style, a strong historical foundation, and a new analogy for understanding party systems in a compelling textbook. White and Shea trace the evolution of parties from the late 18th century through the Information Age, examining the impact of new information technologies throughout the text.

Cengage Learning'

American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed--often vehemently--over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable form of governance. This text develops a unique historical perspective of US party development using the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as a framework for analysis. While Hamilton wanted to marry freedom to a strong, active federal government with an energetic president who would act on behalf of all citizens, Jefferson believed that freedom should be allied to local civic virtue, with governmental responsibilities placed primarily at the local level. Today, Hamiltonian nationalism finds its home in the Democratic Party, while Republicans have espoused Jeffersonian localism since 1964. Using this historical framework, American Political Parties examines a range of topics including marketing and social media, campaign finance, reforms in the presidential nominating process, political demography, and third parties. In this new edition (previously published as Party On!), the authors describe four possible futures in the wake of the 2020 election and why Americans believed it was "the most important" election in their lifetimes. The unique history of US political parties as set forth by the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson is at an inflection point. Republicans have become an insurgent party fully under the control of Donald Trump while Democrats have an opportunity to create a new majority coalition. This juncture poses unique challenges to our democracy and constitutional framework, and the book describes four possible outcomes, postulating where American political parties are headed in this decade.

American Political Parties: Why They Formed, How They Function, and Where They're Headed

University Press of Kansas

Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism

It didn't begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Grand Old Party has been decades in the making. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status--a predisposition that eventually posed a threat to democracy. Building on his esteemed 2016 book, What Happened to the Republican Party?, John Kenneth White proposes to explain why this happened--not just the election of Trump but the authoritarian shift in the party as a whole that led to the insurrection of January 6, 2021, and its aftermath. White presents a clear and concise analysis of how the modern Republican Party came to be by tracing historical patterns that reach back to the 1930s. He argues that the rise of Republican authoritarianism has been decades in the making, going back to the desperation that took hold among party elites in the wake of twenty years of Democratic dominance between 1932 and 1952. The fear of losing that overtook the party during the Roosevelt period eventually led to an escalation of intrigue that included the rise of the John Birch Society in the 1950s and QAnon today. White traces the development of this culture of conspiracy theories within the GOP and explains how the emphasis on winning at any cost created a cult of personality and a willingness to seize power by any means necessary.

History

Americas

The New Politics of Old Values provides the first assessment of the vital importance of values in the political process by analyzing Ronald Reagan's intuitive appeal to traditional American values including individualism, freedom, and equality of opportunity.

The New Politics of Old Values

University Press of America

This new edition of Governing New York State (formerly New York State Today) provides the latest on New York State politics, government, and public policies. The text is two-thirds new material. Covered for the first time are racial politics in New York, political conflict, the press, tax policy, environmental issues, and transportation policy. While continuing to provide a comprehensive introduction to New York State politics and government, the third edition contains fewer, more in-depth articles.

Governing New York State

Stonecash, Jeffrey M.

State Univ of New York Pr

Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old Orders (Suny Series in Political Party Development)

Addresses the altered states of political parties and politics in the post-Cold War era. With the passage of the Cold War, political parties in nearly every corner of the globe have undergone a vast upheaval. Old ideas have become obsolete, electoral maps have been redrawn, party structures have been rebuilt, and new leaders have emerged. Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old Orders describes these changes using several countries as laboratories: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Israel, South Africa, and Russia. While the nature and extent of the political upheavals vary from place to place, the transformations in each nation’s party system have been extraordinary. In this “new world order,” the old political arrangements and old ways of doing things have disappeared. The altered states of political parties in the post-Cold War world pose a central question: what does change look like? The answers given here illuminate our understanding of why the world has changed and how political parties are attempting to cope with it.

State University of New York Press

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Contemporary Readings in American Government

Party On!: Political Parties from Hamilton and Jefferson to Today's Networked Age

New Party Politics: From Jefferson and Hamilton to the Information Age

New Party Politics: From Jefferson and Hamilton to the Information Age

American Political Parties: Why They Formed, How They Function, and Where They're Headed

Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism

Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism

The New Politics of Old Values

Governing New York State

Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old Orders (Suny Series in Political Party Development)