- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854
- Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876
- Joel H. Silbey, Editor
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The Association
- Eugene Charlton Black
- Hardcover
- The Charismatic Bond
- Douglas Madsen
- Peter Snow
- Here is a book that takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma and extends the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Madsen and Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers, finding support for their argument in the rise of Juan Perón and the Peronistas in Argentina.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996
- Chinese Elites and Political Change
- R. Keith Schoppa
- Schoppa divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones according to level of political and economic development and scrupulously analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels. By delving beneath the heroic figures and large movements of Chinese political life in this century, he reveals the common factors that make China a part of the worldwide story of reconstruction, reform, and developmental change.
- Hardcover 1982
- Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
- Samuel P. Hays
- Paperback
- The Conservative Ascendancy
- Donald T. Critchlow
- In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened--both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Contentious French
- Charles Tilly
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- The Demands of Liberty
- Pierre Rosanvallon
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Rosanvallon offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between the government and its citizens. Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time--their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant--The Demands of Liberty traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.
- Hardcover 2007
- Democracy and Disagreement
- Amy Gutmann
- Dennis Thompson
- Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups to reason together.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Democratic Accountability
- Leif Lewin
- Political leaders often claim they have no control over negative outcomes, citing that history rushes onward oblivious of human will. Lewin examines this reasoning and finds it unconvincing. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, not only do political leaders exert enough control to be assigned responsibility, but also that the meaning of a functioning democracy requires the people to hold their leaders accountable.
- Hardcover 2007
- The End of Southern Exceptionalism
- Byron E. Shafer
- Richard Johnston
- Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
- Hardcover 2006
- Free Riding
- Richard Tuck
- A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.
- Hardcover 2008
- The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328
- Charles T. Wood
- An analytical study of the French apanages from their creation to the end of the Capetian period, this pioneering book offers an explanation of why the French kings began the practice of granting fiefs to their younger sons, and why they introduced the curious inheritance restrictions which limited succession in an apanage to direct heirs of the original holder. A clear understanding of the relationship of the apanages to the monarchy, Wood maintains, is a large step toward an understanding of how the monarchy gained control of France and, ultimately, made a nation out of her fragmented provinces.
- Hardcover 1966
- The Greatest Nation of the Earth
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Rejecting the common assumption that domestic legislation during the Civil War was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that Republican party members systematically engineered pathbreaking laws to promote their distinctive theory of political economy.
- Hardcover 1997
- Harry Hopkins
- George McJimsey
- Hardcover 1987
- In Command of France
- Robert J. Young
- In Command of France combines a detailed survey of French foreign policy during the Nazi period with a careful examination of France's corresponding military planning and preparation. France was under control, the author argues, and credits the civilian and military command with more vision, more determination, more competence than hitherto recognized.
- Hardcover 1978
- Ivan Aksakov, 1823-1886
- Stephen Lukashevich
- Aksakov began his fiery career as a critic of Slavophilism, which sought to divorce Russia from the West and all Western influence. Circumstances, however, turned Aksakov into the fanatical leader of the Slavophiles, making him a passionate nationalist and Pan-Slavist, and a fierce anti-Semite. Although he accepted the reforms of the 1860's, he feared that their results would lead to the further Westernization of Russia; and, toward the end of his life, disillusioned and despairing, he lent a generous hand to reaction.
- Hardcover 1965
- Japan's Political Marketplace
- J. Mark Ramseyer
- Frances M. Rosenbluth
- Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth show how rational-choice theory can be applied to Japanese politics. Using the concept of principal and agent, they construct a persuasive account of political relationships in Japan.
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1997
- The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture
- James C. Baxter
- Credit for the swift unification of Japan following the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate is usually given to the national leaders. In this book, James Baxter argues that brilliant leadership at the top is not sufficient to explain how regional separatist tendencies and loyalties to the old lords were overcome in the formation of a nationally unified state.
- Hardcover
- A Mosaic of the Hundred Days
- Luke S. Kwong
- This analysis of the interplay among people and of events leading up to the reform acts of 1898--the Hundred Days--and their abrupt termination presents a new interpretation of the late Ch'ing political scene. The Emperor, the Empress-Dowager, and high-court personalities are followed through the maze of motives and relationships that characterized the power structure in Peking.
- Hardcover 1984
- Overconfidence and War
- Dominic D. P. Johnson
- Opponents rarely go to war without thinking they can win--and clearly, one side must be wrong. This conundrum lies at the heart of the so-called "war puzzle": rational states should agree on their differences in power and thus not fight. But as Johnson argues, states are no more rational than people, who are susceptible to exaggerated ideas of their own virtue, of their ability to control events, and of the future. By looking at this bias--called "positive illusions"--as it figures in evolutionary biology, psychology, and the politics of international conflict, this book offers compelling insights into why states wage war.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Path to Christian Democracy
- Noel Cary
- Challenging those who seek continuity in German history primarily in terms of its long march toward Nazism, this book searches for the indigenous origins of postwar German democracy. By exploring the links between earlier abortive Catholic initiatives and the range of competing postwar visions of the new party system, this book moves Catholic Germany from the periphery to the heart of the issue of continuity in modern German history.
- Hardcover 1996
- Political Ethics and Public Office
- Dennis Thompson
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- The Politics Presidents Make
- Stephen Skowronek
- This wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. But each president also inherits a particular type of political context, a regime shaped by his predecessors that he either rejects or affirms.
- Paperback 1997
- Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea
- James B. Palais
- Palais theorizes in his important book on Korea that the remarkable longevity of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910) was related to the difficulties the country experienced in adapting to the modern world. He suggests that the aristocratic and hierarchical social system, which was the source of stability of the dynasty, was also the cause of its weakness.
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback 1991
- Powerful and Brutal Weapons
- Stephen P. Randolph
- As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact, with President Nixon and National Security Advisor Kissinger hoping that gains on the battlefield would strengthen their position at the negotiating table. Randolph's intimate chronicle of the commander-in-chief gains us unprecedented access to how these strategic assessments were made and played out.
- Hardcover 2007
- Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
- Scott M. Matheson
- Hardcover 2009
- Private Lives/Public Consequences
- William H. Chafe
- A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe, a distinguished historian of twentieth century America, examines eight of the most significant political leaders of the modern era in order to explore the relationship between their personal patterns of behavior and their political decision-making process. The result is a fascinating look at how personal lives and political fortunes have intersected to shape America over the past fifty years.
- Hardcover 2005
- Revolutionary Politics in the Long Parliament
- John R. MacCormack
- This volume is a systematic study of the politics of five crucial years of the Puritan Revolution, the period between John Pym's death in December 1643 and the execution of Charles I in January 1649. MacCormack examines the Long Parliament and the structures of its parties. He investigates the degree to which the division between parties was religious or political, the character of the leadership of the two major groups, and the transformation of the parties during the five-year period.
- Hardcover 1973
- Rightward Bound
- Edited by Bruce J. Schulman
- Edited by Julian E. Zelizer
- Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan’s Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. A critical decade in American history, Rightward Bound illuminates the seeds of both the successes and the failures of the conservative revolution.
- Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008
- Royal Succession in Capetian France
- Andrew W. Lewis
- Hardcover 1982
- The Splintered Party
- Dan White
- The Splintered Party is inevitably, in its broadest aspect, an inquiry into the weaknesses of liberalism in the Empire of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. White explores this from a new perspective, emphasizing regional circumstances as primary agents of the party's decline. The resulting portrait underscores the paradox of the National Liberals: a party with strength in all areas of the Empire, a rarity before 1914, yet a party whose impact was undermined by divisions among its regional branches.
- Hardcover 1976
- Terror and Progress-USSR
- Barrington Moore, Jr
- Hardcover 1954
- The Warrior and the Priest
- John Milton Cooper
- The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biography. In both the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged with each other, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire century.
- Paperback
- Where Have All the Voters Gone?
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002