The State of American Politics
Published on 25. February 2002
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7425-1763-9 (ISBN)
Description
Election 2000: Aberration or paradigm? The essays in this innovative volume, combining scholarly and journalistic views, seek to place the extraordinary events of the 2000 presidential election into context with the trends of electoral politics before and after. Originally presented as a series of public lectures at Oxford University, this volume benefits from an international perspective, a stellar lineup of contributors, and a remarkably cohesive analysis that lays the election results (and thus, the current state of American politics) at the feet of a persistent American cultural divide.
Reviews / Votes
This excellent, compact book contains eight articles by political scientists and journalists. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE * The central strength of this admirable edited collection is its vivid but concise depiction of the main features of recent American politics, captured through a focus on the 2000 elections...an impressively lucid and clear analysis. * Political Studies Review * More than any recent presidential election, the 2000 contest defied conventional wisdom and demanded explanation. Byron Shafer has filled that bill in characteristically lucid style. More than that, by the trenchant commentaries he has collected in The State of American Politics, Professor Shafer has managed to convert that cockamamie election we all endured into a tool for making sense of our whole disordered political process. -- Robert Shogun, former national political correspondent, Los Angeles Times; author of No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy HearingsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-1763-9 (9780742517639)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Byron E. Shafer is the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Content
Part 1 Politics and Society Chapter 2 The Bush Nation and the Gore Nation Chapter 3 The Search for a New Center Part 4 Elite Strategies and Mass Publics Chapter 5 The Invisible Primary and the Hidden Campaign Chapter 6 Dynamics of the 2000 Campaign Part 7 Governmental Institutions Chapter 8 The Presidential Transition into a Fifty-Fifty Government, and Beyond Chapter 9 The U. S. Congress in 2001: Representation and Process Chapter 10 Judicial Activism, 1950 to 2000 Part 11 Afterword Chapter 12 How Divided is America?