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2012
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When do governments merit ourallegiance, and when should they bedenied it? Ian Shapiro explores thismost enduring o political dilemmasin this innovative and engaging book.Building on his highly popular Yalecourses, Proessor Shapiro evaluates the main contendingaccounts o the sources o political legitimacy. Starting withtheorists o the Enlightenment, he examines the argumentsput orward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists o thesocial contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches rom Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part o the book Shapiro examinespartisans and critics o democracy rom Plato’s time untilour own. He concludes with an assessment o democracy’sstrengths and limitations as the ont o political legitimacy.The book oers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources o political allegiance.
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“Frustration with bipartisan politicsis given lucid voice and direction inormer congressman Edwards’s latest:an examination o how the nationcan move past party afliation inorder to move orward. . . . The book provides compelling hope or reorm.”—
In this urgently needed analysis o the dysunction o America’s ederalgovernment, Mickey Edwards explainshow partisanship is undermining ourdemocracy and what steps we must takeso that the people, not parties, controlour government.
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“A riveting page-turner o a book about a orgotten episode in American politi-cal history. The moral? Politics is per-sonal, or better and worse.”—MarthaA. Sandweiss, author o
This riveting story o the 1972 electionuncovers how vice-presidential candi-date Thomas Eagleton’s secrets were re- vealed, why he withdrew rom the race,and how George McGovern’s campaigndealt with the staggering blow.
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This important book chronicles thedisappointing ailure o election reormeorts in the wake o the controversial2000 presidential election. The potentialor worse election meltdowns is real andthe legitimacy o our democracy is at stake, the author warns.
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Which get-out-the-vote eorts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results romhundreds o original experiments, theauthors o this book oer a persuasivenew theory to explain why some meth-ods work while others don’t.
The Institution or Social and Policy StudiesPaper 2012 304 pp. 5 b/w illus.ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16678-1 $35.00
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This book oers a provocative new theory regarding a key question inpolitical science: Why do politiciansallow interest groups to subvert thecommon good?
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“A brilliant, powerully supported maniestoand an indispensable call to arms.”—GarAlperovitz, author o
A noted activist and scholar oers a boldmaniesto and action plan or all who want to change America’s political economy togive true priority to people and planet.
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“Walzer’s guide through the text o theHebrew Bible is magnifcent: a many-layered, elegant, sympathetic but unapologetic examination o covenants,legal codes, kingship, prophecy, exile, holy war, and social justice ‘in God’s shadow’.”—Nancy Rosenblum, Department o Government, Harvard University A highly distinguished political thinkeroers important insights on the political views o the writers o the Bible andinvestigates how they illuminateimportant moral issues in our own time.
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