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We, the People

by Adolph Caso

According to Adolph Caso, the dream behind "We, the people..." has not yet been fulfilled, although America came close in doing so with Dr. Martin Luther King in his "I have a dream" speech. A counter revolution...

Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge

by Scott Walker & Marc Thiessen

"Today, we can sound like conservatives and act like conservatives-and still win elections. Those who say we can't don't see what I see in Wisconsin and what my fellow governors in states all across America...

Legislating Without Experience: Case Studies in State Legislative Term Limits

by John C. Green, Rick Farmer & Christopher Z. Mooney

Legislating Without Experience provides an in-depth analysis of individual states experiencing state legislative term limits as well as apples-to-apples comparisons with states that are untermed. It is a valuable...

The California Republic: Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies

by Brian P. Janiskee & Ken Masugi

The essays in The California Republic explore the evolution of Progressivism in California and also its contemporary policy consequences. Designed to work in tandem with other texts or as a stand-alone reader,...

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion

by Jim Hightower

Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author

"I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out."

--Jim Hightower

Hightower is mad as hell and he's not going...

The Beholden State: California S Lost Promise and How to Recapture It

by Brian C. Anderson

While there is plenty of literature on California’s history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail...

Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands

by Sarah Azaransky, Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández & Orlando Espín

Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied...

A Legacy of Leadership: Governors and American History

by Clayton McClure Brooks

In A Legacy of Leadership, leading journalists and academics create a new framework for understanding the contributions of governors in defining democracy and shaping American history.

Science & Governance - Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously

by Various

This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted...

Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

by Erica Grieder

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders...

Unlocking V. O. Key Jr.: Southern Politics for the Twenty-First Century

by Angie Maxwell

Modern perspectives on a twentieth-century classic

My Story: Tom L. Johnson

by Elizabeth J. Hauser & John J. Grabowski

In cooperation with The Western Reserve Historical SocietyProduced shortly before his death in 1911 and long since out of print, provides a rare personal insight into the career and philosophy of one of the...

Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy

by Thomas J. Vicino

In fear of becoming havens for illegal immigrants, numerous local communities adopted and implemented their own immigration laws during the 2000s. Suburban Crossroads chronicles the political debates and policy...

A Caring Jurisprudence: Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court

by Susan M. Behuniak

This book argues that it is both possible and proper to develop a jurisprudence capable of incorporating the knowledge of patients. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this book proposes a model for a 'caring jurisprudence'...

State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process

by Jocelyn F. Benson

Through legal analysis, case studies, empirical evidence, and interviews with current officeholders, State Secretaries of State reveals how a state's chief election administrator plays a pivotal role in administering...

Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide

by James D. Nowlan & Samuel K. Gove

Considered a microcosm of the nation, the state of Illinois stretches almost four hundred miles from its northern limit at the Wisconsin line to its southern tip at Cairo, nestled between Kentucky and Missouri....

State of Change

by Courtenay W. Daum, Robert J. Duffy & John A. Straayer

"A rare and comprehensive examination of the state's political system and a good historical record of the evolution of our state."- James A. Null University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado has recently...

The Gospel of Progressivism

by R. Todd Laugen

Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early...

Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story

by Carol M. Allen, Barbara J. Grutter & William B. Allen

Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story provides an in-depth account of the 2006 Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, told from the perspective of Toward A Fair Michigan, a non-partisan educational organization....

Governor Reagan His Rise To Power

by Lou Cannon

 A comprehensive biography of Ronald Reagan's governorship, based on never-before mined cabinet minutes, recent interviews with former staff members, and a lifetime of reporting from the former president's...