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Unstable Majorities Continue
The United States is experiencing a period of electoral instability unprecedented in our history. In contrast to the relatively stable party majorities that characterized preceding eras, since 1992 the country has experienced unstable institutional majorities, where presidential candidates earn narrow margins of victory and control of the House and Senate fluctuates. Unstable Majorities Continue: The Trump Era examines the current pattern of volatile party control. It follows the author's 2017 book Unstable Majorities, which first identified this development. Fiorina shows that today's parties are different organizations from those that operated in the past—more homogeneous internally and more distant from each other and from the general public—in both policy and ideology. Arguing that voter positions are generally moderate, the author dispels the commonly held belief that American voters have become the "Divided States of America." The parties have polarized; the electorate has not.
Collective Decision Making
First Published in 2011.This is Volume 11 of fourteen in the library collection of Policy and Government and looks at the applications from public choice theory on decision making. It brings together proceedings that look seek to answer the question for the forum, which was whether public choice theory offers promise of providing a firmer foundation for applied institutional research and for institutional innovations which could contribute to the solution of some of these problems.
Do Voters Look to the Future?
Do voters look to the past, the future, or both when deciding how to vote? In Do Voters Look to the Future?, Brad Lockerbie shows voters to be more sophisticated than much of the work in political science would suggest. He argues that voters do not simply reward or punish the incumbent administration, but instead make a comparative evaluation of the likely performance of each candidate and vote for the one that will most likely provide them with a prosperous future. Making use of data from 1956 through the present, Lockerbie finds that voters take into account both what has happened and what they think will happen when they vote. He finds these economic evaluations to be strongly related to voting behavior both for the House and the Senate, as well as the presidency. Additionally, Lockerbie examines the role of these economic items to explain changes in party identification.
American Gridlock
American Gridlock is a comprehensive analysis of polarization encompassing national and state politics, voters, elites, activists, the media, and the three branches of government.
Deliberation Naturalized
Democratic theory's deliberative turn has hit a dead end. It is unable to find a good way to scale up its small-scale, formally-organized deliberative mini-publics to embrace the entire community. Some turn to deliberative systems for a way out, but none have found in that a credible way of deliberatively involving the citizenry at large. Deliberation Naturalized offers an alternative way out-one we have been using all along. The key sites of democratic deliberation are citizens' everyday political conversations networked across the community. Informal networked deliberation is how all citizens actually deliberate together, directly or indirectly. That is how public opinion emerges in civil ...
Polarized
An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarized Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses the quality of the evidence. Through an innovative and insightful use of circumstantial evidence, it provides a much-needed reality check to claims about polarizat...
Perpetuating the Pork Barrel
Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape.
Leadership and Politics
In twelve essays, influential scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership from the kaleidoscopic perspectives of the leaders, institutions, goals, procedures, problems, and traditions involved. The approaches, as varied as the subject itself, coalesce around the central question of how leaders interact with, transform, or are controlled by the organizations they lead.
The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered
Eight prominent scholars consider whether Louis Hartz's interpretation of liberalism in his classic 1955 book should be repudiated or updated, and whether a study of America as a "liberal society" is still a rewarding undertaking.
Parties and Elections in America
Parties and Elections in America is an established and well-respected text covering all aspects of the electoral process from historical roots through election year 2000. The Post-Election Update includes the 2000 election results, with 44 key data tables and figures updated and new chapter opening photos throughout. Chapter updates reflecting the events from the 2000 election include the presidential nomination process, the endless election, the role of Ralph Nader and the Greens, and media blunders on election night. The concluding chapter is updated to look ahead toward election reform measures certain to be proposed in the aftermath of Election 2000.
