Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy 2020042077, 9781631497773, 9781631497780

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy 9781631497780, 9781631497773

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New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State 9780674275621

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the ro

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The Makers Of Modern Syria: The Rise and Fall of Syrian Democracy 1918 – 1958 9781350988880, 9781786734556

In the aftermath of World War I Syria paved a path towards democracy. Initially as part of the French mandate in the Mid

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Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy 9781501759888

The practical effect and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Soyer's Left in the Center

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The Modern Senate of Canada 1925-1963 9781487589462

Little is generally known about the Senate, and of what little, much is erroneous. Professor Kunz's mass of detail

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Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University 9780226341958

During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for t

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To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction 9780801455506

Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strateg

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The Decline and Rise of Democracy 9780691177465, 9780691201955

"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."—Steven Levitsky, New York Time

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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State 9780300216318

Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new typ

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The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy 9780674020054

This book revisits the electoral college crisis of 1800, offering a new understanding of the early plebiscitarian presid

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